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diff --git a/README.linux b/README.linux
index d51ff5d4..677e2d8d 100644
--- a/README.linux
+++ b/README.linux
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ Please let us know how this works for you under other Linux distributions or any
 
 Installation
 ------------
-Note: You will need to have root privileges in order to install the library in the /usr/lib directory.
+Note: You will need to have root privileges in order to install the library in
+/usr/include and /usr/lib directories.
 The installation process is as simple as this : 
 1) Enter the OpenJPEG directory
 2) Build the distribution : 
@@ -22,3 +23,11 @@ make install
 3) Clean all files produced during the build process
 make clean
 
+Simple codec compilation
+------------------------
+Once you've built the library, you might want to test it with a basic codec. To do this, go to the codec directory and use one of the following commands to build an encoder and decoder respectively:
+
+gcc convert.c image_to_j2k.c -o image_to_j2k -lopenjpeg -I ../libopenjpeg/ -lm -ltiff
+gcc convert.c j2k_to_image.c -o j2k_to_image -lopenjpeg -I ../libopenjpeg/ -lm -ltiff
+
+You should add '-L..' to those lines if you did not use the 'install' target (and the 'clean' target neither...).