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 Gio is designed to work with very few dependencies. It depends only on the platform libraries for
 window management, input and GPU drawing.
 
-For Linux you need Wayland and the wayland and xkbcommon development packages. On Fedora, install the
-dependencies with the command
+For Linux you need Wayland and the wayland and xkbcommon development packages. On Fedora 28 and newer,
+install the dependencies with the command
 
 	$ sudo dnf install wayland-devel libxkbcommon-devel
 
+On Ubuntu 18.04 and newer, use
+
+	$ sudo apt install libwayland-dev libxkbcommon-dev
+
 Xcode is required for macOS, iOS, tvOS.
 
 For Windows you need the ANGLE drivers for emulating OpenGL ES. You can build ANGLE yourself or use