diff --git a/README b/README
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@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+REQUIREMENTS
+------------
+
+Use ./setup-env.sh to setup the virtualenv for Auth, you'll also need the following packages (as named on Debian):
+
+python-zeroc-ice (ZeroC ICE Bindings for Python)
+python-imaging (PIL)
+python-mysqldb (MySQL connectors for Python)
+
+RUNNING
+-------
+
+For live envs, use ./start.sh, which runs a FCGI instance on port 9981.
+
+For dev, use ./manage.py runserver <ip>:<port>, after loading the virtualenv
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ django-piston==0.2.2
 django-registration==0.7
 yolk==0.4.1
 -e git+http://github.com/bradjasper/django-jsonfield.git#egg=django_jsonfield
+xmlrpclib==1.0.1