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 This document will help you install and maintain a Hush Full Node. It is mainly geared towards exchanges and mining pools, but
 will be useful to any service provider adding Hush, such as a Discord Tipbot service provider like https://tip.cc
+
+# Installing Hush from source
+
+On Ubuntu/Linux systems, you can install Hush with these commands:
+
+```
+# install build depedencies
+sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib \
+      autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python zlib1g-dev wget \
+      bsdmainutils automake curl unzip nano libsodium-dev
+git clone https://github.com/MyHush/hush3.git
+cd hush3
+./build.sh -j4
+```
+
+