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@@ -16,16 +16,21 @@ RISCV-VP uses libGIS (https://github.com/vsergeev/libGIS) as well as ELFIO (http
 * you need to have a C++11 capable compiler (e.g. gcc >= 4.8), make, python, and cmake installed
 * install LLVM >= 4.0 according to http://apt.llvm.org/ (if it is not already provided by your distribution e.g by Ubuntu 18.04)
 * install conan.io (see also http://docs.conan.io/en/latest/installation.html):
+
 ```
     pip install conan
 ```
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 * setup conan to use the minres repo:
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 ```
     conan remote add minres https://api.bintray.com/conan/minres/conan-repo
     conan remote add bincrafters https://api.bintray.com/conan/bincrafters/public-conan
 ```
+
 * checkout source from git
 * start an out-of-source build:
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 ```
     cd RISCV-VP
     mkdir build
@@ -33,10 +38,13 @@ RISCV-VP uses libGIS (https://github.com/vsergeev/libGIS) as well as ELFIO (http
     cmake ..
     cmake --build .
 ```
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 * if you encounter issues when linking wrt. c++11 symbols you might have run into GCC ABI incompatibility introduced from GCC 5.0 onwards. You can fix this by adding '-s compiler.libcxx=libstdc++11' to the conan call or changing compiler.libcxx to
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 ```
 compiler.libcxx=libstdc++11
 ```
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 in $HOME/.conan/profiles/default
 
 **Detailed Setup steps**