diff --git a/legacy/eet/README.in b/legacy/eet/README.in
index 9ca3153783..875ecc68b1 100644
--- a/legacy/eet/README.in
+++ b/legacy/eet/README.in
@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ other machines, or just writing to arbitary files on the system. All
 data is encoded in a platform independant way and can be written and
 read by any architecture.
 
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+COMPILING AND INSTALLING:
+
+  ./configure
+  make
+(as root unless youare installing in your users directories):
+  make install
+      
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 BUILDING PACKAGES: