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@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ This repository contains a set of scripts for creating base boxes for usage with
 
 ## Building the boxes
 
+In order to build the boxes you need to have the `lxc-download`
+template available on your machine. If you don't have one around please 
+create one based on [this](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/master/templates/lxc-download.in)
+and drop it on your lxc templates path (usually `/usr/share/lxc/templates`).
+
 ```sh
 git clone https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc-base-boxes.git
 cd vagrant-lxc-base-boxes