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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ If you are using windows, please see https://github.com/wheybags/freeablo-window
 
 ##Linux/Unix
 freeablo uses cmake, and depends on boost >= 1.54, libbz2, zlib, and SDL 1 or 2, so make sure to have those installed.
-Please note that performance for the SDL1 backend is quite bad (Iget around 10fps, compared to about 600 with SDL2).
+Please note that performance for the SDL1 backend is quite bad (I get around 10fps, compared to about 600 with SDL2).
 
 Get the source:
 
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ $ mkdir build
 $ cd build
 ```
 
+symlink the resources folder:
+```
+$ ln -s ../freeablo/resources
+```
+
 call cmake: ```cmake ../freeablo```
 (if you want to use SDL1, use ```cmake ../freeablo -DUSE_SDL2=OFF```)