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 Installing PyAFS
 ================
 
-To install PyAFS, you will first need to install Cython_, which you
-can do by running:
+To install PyAFS, you will first need to install Cython_. It's always
+a good idea to install Cython through your package manager, if
+possible. Your system's Cython package may be named ``cython`` or
+``cython-py25``. If your package manager doesn't have a package for
+Cython, or if you wish to install Cython by hand anyway, you can do so
+by running::
 
   $ easy_install Cython
 
-Once you've done that, to install PyAFS globally, run
+Once you've done that, to install PyAFS globally, run::
 
   $ python setup.py install
 
 If you want to build PyAFS without installing it globally, you may
-want to run:
+want to run::
 
   $ python setup.py build_ext --inplace
 
@@ -20,4 +24,16 @@ which will build the C extensions in place next to their source,
 allowing you to import the various modules, so long as your current
 working directory is the root of the PyAFS source tree.
 
+Alternatively, PyHesiod has been packaged for Debian and Ubuntu. To
+build the Debian package of the latest release, run::
+
+  $ git checkout debian
+  $ git buildpackage
+  $ sudo debi
+
+You will need the devscripts and git-buildpackage packages installed,
+as well as this package's build dependencies (cdbs, debhelper,
+python-all-dev, python-support, python-pyrex, python-setuptools,
+libopenafs-dev).
+
 .. _Cython: http://cython.org/