From 3cca82534dee7c78347fcf07a03150cfa90d943a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Srini Polavarapu <psrini@google.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 11:53:35 -0800
Subject: Consolidate build instructions in INSTALL.md and src/cpp/README.md

---
 INSTALL.md | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

(limited to 'INSTALL.md')

diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index 792e619fdb..58521d57e7 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -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
 
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