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@@ -73,15 +73,8 @@ and the server should start up and be ready to join.
 
 ###HOSTING ON LINUX
 We use BYGEX for some of our text replacement related code. Unfortunately, we
-only have a windows dll included right now. If you're up to it, you can head
-over to https://code.google.com/p/byond-regex/ and compile it for linux.
-
-Otherwise, edit the file `code/_compile_options.dm`, and comment out:
-`#define USE_BYGEX`
-at the bottom, so that it looks like this:
-`//#define USE_BYGEX`
-Recompile the codebase afterwards.
-
+only have a windows dll included right now. You can find a version known to compile on linux, along with some basic install instructions here
+https://github.com/optimumtact/byond-regex
 
 ##UPDATING
 
@@ -140,4 +133,4 @@ All code before commit 333c566b88108de218d882840e61928a9b759d8f on 2014/31/12 at
 
 including tools unless their readme specifies otherwise. See LICENSE-AGPLv3.txt and LICENSE-GPLv3.txt for more details.
 All content including icons and sound is under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY-SA
-license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
+license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
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