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@@ -20,3 +20,30 @@ Runs compilation in the current directory and all of its subdirectories.
 ### `npx squiggle-cli-experimental watch`
 
 Watches `.squiggleU` files in the current directory (and subdirectories) and rebuilds them when they are saved. Note that this will _not_ rebuild files when their dependencies are changed, just when they are changed directly.
+
+## Further instructions
+
+The above requires having node, npm and npx. To install the first two, see [here](https://nodejs.org/en/), to install npx, run:
+
+```
+npm install -g npx
+```
+
+Alternatively, you can run the following without the need for npx:
+
+```
+npm install squiggle-cli-experimental
+node node_modules/squiggle-cli-experimental/index.js compile
+```
+
+or you can add a script to your `package.json`, like:
+
+````
+ ...
+ scripts: {
+  "compile": "squiggle-cli-experimental compile"
+ }
+ ...
+````
+
+This can be run with `npm run compile`. `npm` knows how to reach into the node_modules directly, so it's not necessary to specify that.