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 #### Installation from source repository ####
 
-Download or checkout the wsltty repository.
+Checkout the wsltty repository, or download the source archive, unpack and rename the directory to `wsltty`.
 Invoke `make`, then `make install`.
 Note this has to be done within a Cygwin environment.