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 <details>
 <summary><b>Get ArchiveBox with <code>docker-compose</code> on any platform (recommended, everything included out-of-the-box)</b></summary>
 
+<br/>
 First make sure you have Docker installed: https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/
-<br/><br/>
+<br/>
 This is the recommended way to run ArchiveBox because it includes *all* the extractors like chrome, wget, youtube-dl, git, etc., as well as full-text search with sonic, and many other great features.
 
 <pre language="bash">
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ docker-compose run archivebox help  # to see more options
 
 <details>
 <summary><b>Get ArchiveBox with <code>docker</code> on any platform</b></summary>
-
+<br/>
 First make sure you have Docker installed: https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/<br/>
 
 <pre language="bash">
@@ -108,6 +109,8 @@ docker run -v $PWD:/data -it archivebox/archivebox help  # to see more options
 <summary><b>Get ArchiveBox with <code>apt</code> on Ubuntu >=20.04</b></summary>
 
 <pre language="bash">
+# add the repo to your sources and install the archivebox package using apt
+sudo apt install software-properties-common
 sudo add-apt-repository -u ppa:archivebox/archivebox
 sudo apt install archivebox
 
@@ -137,14 +140,19 @@ deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/archivebox/archivebox/ubuntu focal main
 deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/archivebox/archivebox/ubuntu focal main
 </pre>
 
+Then run `apt update; apt install archivebox; archivebox --version`.
+
 (you may need to install some other dependencies manually however)
 
 </details>
 
 <details>
 <summary><b>Get ArchiveBox with <code>brew</code> on macOS >=10.13</b></summary>
+<br/>
+First make sure you have Homebrew installed:https://brew.sh/#install<br/>
 
 <pre language="bash">
+# install the archivebox package using homebrew
 brew install archivebox/archivebox/archivebox
 
 # create a new empty directory and initalize your collection (can be anywhere)
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 <summary><b>Get ArchiveBox with <code>pip</code> on any platform</b></summary>
+<br/>
+First make sure you have Python >= 3.7 installed: https://realpython.com/installing-python/<br/>
 
 <pre language="bash">
+# install the archivebox package using pip3
 pip3 install archivebox
 
 # create a new empty directory and initalize your collection (can be anywhere)