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@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ Spack has the following minimum requirements, which must be installed
before Spack is run:
#. Python 2 (2.6 or 2.7) or 3 (3.5 - 3.9) to run Spack
-#. A C/C++ compiler for building
+#. A C/C++ compiler for building and the ``bash`` shell for Spack's compiler
+ wrapper
#. The ``make`` executable for building
#. The ``tar``, ``gzip``, ``unzip``, ``bzip2``, ``xz`` and optionally ``zstd``
executables for extracting source code