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@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ You'll need to install the following requirements:
 
 - [requests](https://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/) (`apt install python3-requests` / `pip install requests`)
 - [skopeo](https://github.com/containers/skopeo) (check the [install docs](https://github.com/containers/skopeo/blob/master/install.md))
+- [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/tutorial/) (`sudo apt-get install jq` or see [the install docs](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/))
 
 Then run `./bin/app-json.py` ([source](./bin/app-json.py)) and it will spit out the JSON file into [deploy/abra-apps.autonomic.zone/abra-apps.json](./deploy/abra-apps.autonomic.zone/abra-apps.json).