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@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ cAdvisor now also supports [InfluxDB](http://influxdb.com) to store stats. To us
 
 [Heapster](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/heapster) enables cluster wide monitoring of containers using cAdvisor.
 
+## Building and Testing cAdvisor
+
+See the more detailed instructions in the [build page](docs/build.md).
+
 ## Web UI
 
 cAdvisor exposes a web UI at its port:
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+# Building and Testing cAdvisor
+
+**Note**: cAdvisor only builds on Linux since it uses Linux-only APIs.
+
+You should be able to `go get` cAdvisor as expected (we use `-d` to only download):
+
+```
+$ go get -d github.com/google/cadvisor
+```
+
+We use `godep` so you will need to get that as well:
+
+```
+$ go get github.com/tools/godep
+```
+
+At this point you can build cAdvisor:
+
+```
+$ godep go build github.com/google/cadvisor
+```
+
+or run unit tests:
+
+```
+$ godep go test github.com/google/cadvisor/...
+```