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@@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ This will walk you through installing Chisel and its dependencies:
         ```
         sudo update-alternatives --config java
         ```
+  1. Locally publish this version of firrtl so it is available to satisfy the chisel3 library dependency:
+
+        ```
+        sbt publish-local
+        ```
   1. Add the FIRRTL executable to your PATH. One way is to add this line to your
     `.bashrc`: