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+# Installation of pam_panic
+
+You will need GCC or similar, as well as the PAM headers. Some distributions package the PAM headers as libpam0g-dev.
+
+To compile and install it, do the following within the project's root directory:
+```bash
+$ [ ! -e ./configure ] && autoreconf -i
+$ ./configure
+$ make
+$ sudo make install
+```
+Note: the paths of the reboot, poweroff, and cryptsetup commands are passed to the module at compile-time.
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