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Update build requirements #1924

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Add Linux platform note and keyring install command
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Update Windows requirements
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:penguin: Mention separate build/install
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Expand Up @@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ Atom is designed to be customizable, but also usable without needing to edit a c

Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core.

Visit [atom.io](http://atom.io)
to learn more.
Visit [atom.io](http://atom.io) to learn more.

## Installing

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## Building
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The build steps got pretty big. We can probably move each platforms build instructions into a separate doc



**OS X Requirements**
* OS X 10.8 or later
* [node.js](http://nodejs.org/)
* Command Line Tools for [Xcode](https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/)

**Linux Requirements**
* [node.js](http://nodejs.org/)
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@kevinsawicki @zcbenz @thedaniel I'm not sure what else is needed here. @thedaniel mentioned the gnome-keychain headers are also a requirement.


**Windows Requirements**
* [node.js](http://nodejs.org/)
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@mcolyer @paulcbetts is there a tl;dr windows requirement we can add here?

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You need Python 2.7, Visual Studio 2013, and node.js as I recall.

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Look at the last section of this pull #1035

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Yeah, I think we should just copy the last instructions before the old doc was deleted, e9cf8d4

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What version of windows should we say is required?

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7️⃣

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Technically, I believe the lowest you can go is Vista (for VS2013), but Win7 is a good choice.


```sh
git clone git@github.com:atom/atom.git
cd atom
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