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@@ -40,4 +40,6 @@ you can do this yourself by [installing the reMarkable toolchain](https://remark
 and compiling `lz4` from source with the toolchain enabled, or you can use the
 statically linked binary I have already built and put in this repo.
 
-Copy the `lz4` program to your reMarkable with `scp lz4.arm.static root@10.11.99.1:~/lz4` and you're ready to go.
+Copy the `lz4` program to your reMarkable with
+`scp lz4.arm.static root@10.11.99.1:~/lz4`, make it executable with
+`ssh root@10.11.99.1 'chmod +x ~/lz4'` and you're ready to go.