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@@ -28,6 +28,15 @@ You can clone from the official libosmocore.git repository using
 
 There is a cgit interface at <http://git.osmocom.org/pysim/>
 
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+Dependencies
+------------
+pysim requires pyscard and pytlv. Both can be installed using python-pip:
+
+pip install pytlv
+pip install pyscard
+
+
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