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documentation: build on Debian 12 #265

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When building on debian, a fresh install, i ran into a few packages that are also needed.

pkg-config // for the ./configure script - not sure if this used to be bundled by default. if you built glfw etc. from source you'd also need it but i didn't.

make // this is plainly obvious from the instructions, but might add it to the list so you can copy paste all the stuff and just run 1 apt thing - perhaps build-essential would be more complete - i had a few tools already

xxd // for make during luau building

suggested change to docs:

old:
If you have Debian/Ubuntu:
ninja-build libncursesw5-dev zlib1g-dev libglfw3-dev

new:
If you have Debian/Ubuntu:
ninja-build libncursesw5-dev zlib1g-dev libglfw3-dev build-essential pkg-config xxd

I realize for devs these are easy to deduce, but looking at how user friendly linux is becoming, its not only devs these days using it, and the wordgrinder is nice for novelists and other people who might not necessarily know how to read these build errors (but can follow your instructions by copy pasting).

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