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<h2>More Details</h2>
- <p>For more details, including platform-specific hints for Debian, Windows, and Mac systems, please see the <a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/InstallDetails">InstallDetails</a> wiki page. If you are running on Windows, you need to manually install "pywin32", as described on that page.
+ <p>For more details, including platform-specific hints for Debian, Windows, and Mac systems, please see the <a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/InstallDetails">InstallDetails</a> wiki page. If you are running on Windows, you need to manually install "pywin32", as described on that page. Debian/Ubuntu users: use the instructions written above! Do not try to install Tahoe-LAFS using apt-get.
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