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@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ To build MongoDB, you will need:
* GCC 5.4.0 or newer
* Clang 3.8 (or Apple XCode 8.3.2 Clang) or newer
* Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 or newer (See Windows section below for details)
+* On Linux and macOS, the libcurl library and header is required. MacOS includes libcurl.
+ * Fedora/RHEL - dnf install libcurl-devel
+ * Ubuntu/Debian - apt-get install libcurl-dev
* Python 2.7.x and Pip modules:
* pyyaml
* typing