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 The file `doc/plugins.adoc` has some information on the plugins system that Hashmal uses.
 
+##Installation
+- First you need to make sure you have the `python-bitcoinlib` installed. 
+- `sudo pip install python-bitcoinlib`
+- the second requirement is the `pyparsing` python package. 
+- `sudo pip install pyparsing`
+- finally you can run run hashmal
+- `./hashmal`
 
 ## License