From 798026632d2466b92f0deb89a6342bc05df7711e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eberhard Beilharz <eb1@sil.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 11:37:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] chore(linux): Update readme

---
 docs/linux/README.md | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/linux/README.md b/docs/linux/README.md
index 354ee895318..8ee91fbe81e 100644
--- a/docs/linux/README.md
+++ b/docs/linux/README.md
@@ -89,6 +89,21 @@ The `run-tests` script accepts different arguments which can be seen with
 
 ### Code Coverage Report
 
+#### Prerequisites
+
+Code coverage reports require some additional tools: lcov, gcovr,
+libdatetime-perl, and coverage.
+
+You can install these with:
+
+```bash
+sudo apt update
+sudo apt install -y lcov libdatetime-perl gcovr
+pip3 install coverage
+```
+
+#### Creating and displaying code coverage reports
+
 All three projects (ibus-keyman, keyman-config, and keyman-system-service)
 can produce code coverage reports.