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@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ There are only a few packages that need to be installed as root to get started:
 >     sudo apt-get install mingw32 wine git-core
 >     sudo apt-get build-dep tinc
 
+Other Linux distributions may also have MinGW packages, use their respective
+package management tools to install them.  Debian installs the cross-compiler
+in `/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/`. Other distributions might install it in another
+directory however, for example `/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/`. Check in which directory
+it is installed, and replace all occurences of `i586-mingw32msvc` in this
+example with the correct name from your distribution.
+
 ### Setting up the build directory and getting the sources
 
 We will create a directory called `mingw/` in the home directory.  We use