diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 9a6034c16..a5413400d 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
 See http://camlistore.org/docs/contributing for information
 on how to contribute to the project and submit patches.
 
+On Debian, to get started:
+
+$ sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 pkg-config subversion git make
+$ ./dev-server
+$ ./dev-camput
+$ ./dev-camget
+
+etc
+