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+# phosphor-debug-collector
+Phosphor Debug Collector provides mechanisms to collect various log files and
+system parameters. Used to troubleshoot problems in OpenBMC based systems.
+
+## To Build
+```
+To build this package, do the following steps:
+
+    1. ./bootstrap.sh
+    2. ./configure ${CONFIGURE_FLAGS}
+    3. make
+
+To clean the repository run `./bootstrap.sh clean`.
+```