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-## Setup
-Add this to `~/.latexmkrc`:
+## Prerequisites & setup
+The compilation of this master's thesis was only verified on Linux. The following software is required to compile this work:
+
+* A LaTeX compiler, for example, [TeX Live](https://tug.org/texlive/) for Linux
+* [latexmk](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/latexmk/) is assumed by all build automation
+* [LibreOffice](https://www.libreoffice.org/) is used to transform the OpenDocument drawings to PDFs
+* [Python >3.7](https://www.python.org/) is required to generate tables in the appendix and to automatically generate graphs. Furthermore, the following Python packages are required:
+    * [jupyter notebook](https://jupyter.org/)
+    * [pandoc](https://pandoc.org/)
+    * [matplotlib](https://matplotlib.org/)
+    * [numpy](http://www.numpy.org/)
+
+In order to be able to generate the list of abbrevations, the following has to be added to to `~/.latexmkrc`:
 ```bash
 add_cus_dep('acn', 'acr', 0, 'makeacn2acr');
 sub makeacn2acr {