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  * https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon
 
+Dependencies
+============
+
+To get started you will need to install Node.js (http://nodejs.org/) on your
+machine. Node.js is used with Horizon in order to use LESS
+(http://lesscss.org/) for our CSS needs. Horizon is currently using Node.js
+v0.6.12.
+
+For Ubuntu use apt to install Node.js::
+
+    $ sudo apt-get install nodejs
+
+For other versions of Linux, please see here:: http://nodejs.org/#download for
+how to install Node.js on your system.
+
+
 Getting Started
 ===============