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@@ -111,6 +111,14 @@ Installing prerequisites on ArchLinux::
     sudo pacman -S base-devel python2 python-pip \
                    python-setuptools python-virtualenv sqlite3
 
+Installing prerequisites on CentOS 7::
+
+    sudo yum install libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel libzip-devel freetype-devel \
+                     lcms2-devel libwebp-devel tcl-devel tk-devel \
+                     python-virtualenv
+                     sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
+
+
 Installing prerequisites on Mac OS X::
 
     xcode-select --install
@@ -133,6 +141,11 @@ In case of problems, please see the _Troubleshooting section below.
 Alternatively, Silvio Fricke has contributed a Dockerfile to automate the
 above in Docker at https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/silviof/docker-matrix/.
 
+Another alternative is to install via apt from http://matrix.org/packages/debian/.
+Note that these packages do not include  a client - choose one from
+https://matrix.org/blog/try-matrix-now/ (or build your own with 
+https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/). 
+
 To set up your homeserver, run (in your virtualenv, as before)::
 
     cd ~/.synapse