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 ### Building
 
-etcd is installed like any other Go binary. The steps below will put everything into a directory called etcd.
+etcd is installed like any other Go (golang >= 1.1) binary. The steps below will put everything into a directory called etcd.
 
 ```
 mkdir etcd