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@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ After you have cloned FlexFlow, use the following command lines to clone Legion
 git submodule init
 git submodule update
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+If you download FlexFlow source code from Zenodo, you can clone the submodules by running the `install.sh` script.
 
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