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@@ -16,9 +16,7 @@ Installing
 Download the latest tarball from [the github download page][download],
 then Magit can be installed with the popular recipe of:
 
-    ./autogen.sh     # If you got the sources directly from Git
-    ./configure
-    make install
+make && sudo make install
 
 This will put magit.el into `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp`, where
 Emacs should be able to find it.  Then add