From bc98da088e4c96586f60eaacc18df656e985904f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jennifer Buehler <jenniferb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 22:47:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] update

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 README.md | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 96dbc72..eb0b758 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,15 +2,33 @@
 
 Collection of various message packages which can be useful to a broader range of other packages.
 
-
 # Dependencies
 
 * [object_recognition_msgs](http://wiki.ros.org/object_recognition_msgs)
-
+* This repository itself: [general-message-pkgs](https://github.com/JenniferBuehler/general-message-pkgs)
 
 # Install
 
 ```
 sudo apt-get install \
     ros-<distro>-object-recognition-msgs
-```     
+```
+ 
+Add the git repository to your catkin workspace:
+
+```
+cd <your-catkin-ws>/src
+git clone https://github.com/JenniferBuehler/general-message-pkgs.git
+```
+
+*Hint*: Alternatively to cloning the repositry directly into the catkin source folder, you
+may also clone the repository elsewhere and then create a softlink to the main folders
+in your catkin source directory:    
+``ln -s <path to general-message-pkgs>`` 
+ 
+To compile, you can now use catkin\_make as usual:
+
+```
+cd ..
+catkin_make
+```
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