diff --git a/docs/building.md b/docs/building.md
index 5817f954..ea59259a 100644
--- a/docs/building.md
+++ b/docs/building.md
@@ -34,7 +34,12 @@ make install
 
 The last command will create the include/ and lib/ directories with a copy of
 the headers and library objects respectively in your build location. Note that
-doing an out-of-source build may cause issues when rebuilding later on.
+doing an out-of-source build may cause issues when rebuilding later on. In many
+cases you'll need elevated permissions to install:
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~{.sh}
+sudo make install
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 Our cmake configure has a number of options, *cmake-gui* or *ccmake* can show
 you all the options. The interesting ones are detailed below:
diff --git a/docs/installing.md b/docs/installing.md
index c88874b9..557564b6 100644
--- a/docs/installing.md
+++ b/docs/installing.md
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ To install:
 ```bash
 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mraa/mraa
 sudo apt-get update
-sudo apt-get install libupm-dev python-upm python3-upm upm-examples
+sudo apt-get install libupm-dev libupm-java python-upm python3-upm node-upm upm-examples
 ```
 
-Note that the Ubuntu PPA only provides the C/C++ and Python packages. Node.js
-developers will have to install MRAA and UPM using NPM instead.
+Running UPM applications on Ubuntu systems requires elevated permissions
+(e.g. run with `sudo`).
 
 ### Node.js bindings only (NPM)