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 # Running the examples
 
-Assuming you have a checkout of the Puppeteer repo and have run npm i (or yarn) to install the dependencies, the examples can be run from the root folder like so:
+Assuming you have a checkout of the Puppeteer repo and have run `npm i` (or `yarn`) to install the dependencies, and `npm run build` (or `yarn run build`) to build the project, the examples can be run from the root folder like so:
 
 ```bash
 NODE_PATH=../ node examples/search.js