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@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ Connect the feisty meow scripts to your login script (in ~/.bashrc).
 Note that this actually modifies ~/.bashrc.  This step is only needed once.
 # bash /opt/feistymeow.org/feisty_meow/scripts/core/connect_feisty_meow.sh
 
+| For the root user, you can pass a flag '--root' to the connect_feisty_meow
+| script.  This will add an alias for 'feistyme' which loads the feisty meow
+| scripts on demand (instead of automatically upon login).
+
 Load the script environment into the current shell.  This can be done for
 any new shell.  This is idempotent, so it does no harm to run it again.
 Note that you should not need this step if you connected feisty meow to
@@ -54,12 +58,15 @@ A couple of perl modules are required by some of the scripts (including the
 differ utility and the feisty meow customization system).  They can be
 installed with either apt-get or CPAN.
 
-Install using apt-get:
+Install using apt-get (on Ubuntu or Debian-based OS):
 # sudo apt-get install libfile-which-perl libtext-diff-perl
 
 or Install using perl's CPAN:
 # sudo cpan install Text::Diff File::Which
 
+or on Cygwin (MS-Windows), install with apt-cyg:
+# apt-cyg install perl-File-Which perl-Text-Diff
+
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 How to install the build dependencies for feisty meow