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 ## Installing ZNC
 
-Installation is done with the `./configure ; make ; make install` commands.
-
 If you are building from git, you will need to run `./autogen.sh` first to produce the `configure` script.
 Note that this requires `automake` and `gettext` to be installed.
 
+Installation is done with the `./configure ; make ; make install` commands.
+
 You can use
 	./configure --help
 if you want to get a list of options, though the defaults should be suiting