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 To get started:
 ```
-npm install --global gittorrent
+sudo npm install --global gittorrent
 ```
+(You can avoid `sudo` if you place the gittorrent binaries in your `$PATH`.)
+
 After that, you can clone a repo with:
 ```
 git clone gittorrent://github.com/someuser/somerepo