From b968d123a30a4ff327a217c983b329a3835c0a0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnout Engelen <github@bzzt.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:35:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Document compiling from source (fixes #19)

---
 README.md | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4512f9f..da9caad 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ Nethogs is a mature piece of software included in most Linux distributions.
 
 Ideas for features, as well as open bugs, can be found at https://github.com/raboof/nethogs/issues
 
+### Building from source
+
+Nethogs depends on ncurses, so you need to install the ncurses development
+libraries before building nethogs. For example on Debian, 'apt-get install
+libncurses5-dev'.
+
+After that, simply 'make && sudo make install'
+
 Coding standards
 ----------------