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+Prerequisites
+-------------
+
+- Boost libraries >= 1.42
+- NDN-CPP-dev library (https://github.com/cawka/ndn-cpp)
+
+Build
+-----
+
+The following commands should be used to build NFD:
+
+    ./waf configure
+    ./waf
+
+If NFD needs to be installed
+
+    sudo ./waf install
+
+