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 See the `example/Makefile.am` for more details.
+
+## Installing sdbusplus on custom distributions
+
+Installation of sdbusplus bindings on a custom distribution requires a few
+packages to be installed prior. Although these packages are the same for several
+distributions the names of these packages do differ. Below are the packages
+needed for Ubuntu and Fedora.
+
+### Installation on Ubuntu
+
+```
+sudo apt install git autoconf libtool pkg-config g++ autoconf-archive libsystemd-dev python python-yaml python-mako python-inflection
+```
+
+### Installation on Fedora
+
+```
+sudo dnf install git autoconf libtool gcc-c++ pkgconfig autoconf-archive systemd-devel python python-pip python-yaml python-mako
+```
+Install the inflection package using the pip utility (on Fedora)
+```
+pip install inflection
+```
+