diff --git a/doc/build-unix.md b/doc/build-unix.md
index 341b17b5435..31159d44b19 100644
--- a/doc/build-unix.md
+++ b/doc/build-unix.md
@@ -108,15 +108,15 @@ To build without GUI pass `--without-gui`.
 
 To build with Qt 4 you need the following:
 
-    apt-get install libqt4-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler
+    sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler
 
 For Qt 5 you need the following:
 
-    apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5 libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev
+    sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5 libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev
 
 libqrencode (optional) can be installed with:
 
-    apt-get install libqrencode-dev
+    sudo apt-get install libqrencode-dev
 
 Once these are installed, they will be found by configure and a bitcoin-qt executable will be
 built by default.