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+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright 2013 The Flutter Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+# found in the LICENSE file.
+
+# Installs the dependencies necessary to build the Linux Flutter shell, beyond
+# those installed by install-build-deps.sh.
+
+set -e
+
+sudo apt-get -y install libglfw3-dev libepoxy-dev libjsoncpp-dev libgtk-3-dev \
+    libx11-dev