diff --git a/docs/global.rst.inc b/docs/global.rst.inc
index 694f4d967..e809ad9a9 100644
--- a/docs/global.rst.inc
+++ b/docs/global.rst.inc
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 .. _HMAC-SHA256: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC
 .. _PBKDF2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2
 .. _ACL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_control_list
+.. _libacl: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/acl/
 .. _github: https://github.com/jborg/attic
 .. _OpenSSL: https://www.openssl.org/
 .. _Python: http://www.python.org/
diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst
index 44e31e4ec..2956728b0 100644
--- a/docs/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/installation.rst
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Other dependencies:
 
 * `msgpack-python`_ >= 0.1.10
 * OpenSSL_ >= 1.0.0
+* libacl_
 
 The OpenSSL version bundled with Mac OS X and FreeBSD is most likey too old.
 Newer versions are available from homebrew_ on OS X and from FreeBSD ports.
@@ -19,11 +20,26 @@ Newer versions are available from homebrew_ on OS X and from FreeBSD ports.
 The llfuse_ python package is also required if you wish to mount an
 archive as a FUSE filesystem.
 
+Common compilation pre-requisites
+---------------------------------
+
+The following Debian packages are generally necessary to compile
+|project_name|, either through pip, the tarball or git::
+
+  $ sudo apt-get install python3 python3-dev python3-msgpack python3-sphinx libssl-dev libacl1-dev
+
 Installing from PyPI using pip
 ------------------------------
-::
 
-    $ pip install Attic
+To install |project_name| system-wide::
+
+  $ sudo pip3 install Attic
+
+To install it in a user-specific account::
+
+  $ pip3 install --user Attic
+
+Then add ``$HOME/.library/bin`` to your ``$PATH``.
 
 Installing from source tarballs
 -------------------------------
@@ -32,7 +48,7 @@ Installing from source tarballs
     $ curl -O :targz_url:`Attic`
     $ tar -xvzf |package_filename|
     $ cd |package_dirname|
-    $ python setup.py install
+    $ sudo python3 setup.py install
 
 Installing from git
 -------------------
@@ -40,7 +56,7 @@ Installing from git
 
     $ git clone |git_url|
     $ cd attic
-    $ python setup.py install
+    $ sudo python3 setup.py install
 
 Please note that when installing from git, Cython_ is required to generate some files that
 are normally bundled with the release tarball.