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 Once done, finish installing the support software:
 
 ```bash
-sudo apt install make clang pkg-config libssl-dev
+sudo apt install build-essential git clang libclang-dev pkg-config libssl-dev
 ```
 
 Build the client by cloning this repository and running the following commands from the root