From ef16e247d7544c8027550670f67307e18b577af8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Mike Kostersitz (Oilcan Productions)"
 <77457397+oilcan-productions@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 10:46:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

Adding instructions on how to deploy the dependencies in a consistent fashion to build on various OSes
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 README.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index eef552d6..84fcccf8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -64,6 +64,23 @@ some of which are disk images with ITS installed.
 | pdp10-kl | git, c compiler, make, expect, curses, autoconf, sdl2, sdl2-image, gtk3
 | pdp10-ks | git, c compiler, make, expect, curses, autoconf, sdl2
 
+The repo comes with a handy script to install required dependencies.
+After cloning the repo change to the build folder. For example if you cloned into `~/its` use the following commands
+```
+cd ~/its/build
+sudo chmod +x dependencies.sh
+```
+the script takes 2 parameters to run: 
+`install_<os>` and `EMULATOR=<emnulatorname>`
+To install the dependencies 
+- on MacOS for the PDP-10 KA run
+  - `./dependencies.sh install_macosx EMULATOR=pdp10-ka`
+- on Ubuntu run
+  - `./dependencies.sh install_linux EMULATOR=pdp10-ka`
+- on FreeBSD run
+  - `./dependencies.sh install_freebsd EMULATOR=pdp10-ka`
+  
+Once the script completes navigate back to the `~/its` folder with `cd ..` and run `make clean all EMULATOR=pdp10-ka`
 ### Usage
 
 To start ITS, type `./start`.  If you see `KLH10#`, type `go` and