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 We only tried this on Linux but installation should be possible on MacOS too.
 
+To install prerequisites on Ubuntu: `sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev cmake libeigen3-dev liblzma-dev unzip python3.7`
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 1. Create or simlink a `data` folder to where you want to download the corpus.
 
 2. Run `make install`. This will download some resources and install required packages.