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authorGravatar Srini Polavarapu <psrini@google.com>2018-02-08 11:53:35 -0800
committerGravatar Srini Polavarapu <psrini@google.com>2018-02-08 11:53:35 -0800
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Consolidate build instructions in INSTALL.md and src/cpp/README.md
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@@ -70,6 +70,15 @@ automatically try and compile the `protoc` in third_party if you cloned the
repository recursively and it detects that you don't already have it
installed.
+If it hasn't been installed, you can run the following commands to install it.
+
+```sh
+$ cd grpc/third_party/protobuf
+$ sudo make install # 'make' should have been run by core grpc
+```
+
+Alternatively, you can download `protoc` binaries from
+[the protocol buffers Github repository](https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases).
# Build from Source