diff --git a/osdeps/RedHat-7.json b/osdeps/RedHat-7.json
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--- a/osdeps/RedHat-7.json
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-CentOS-7.json
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diff --git a/osdeps/RedHat-7.json b/osdeps/RedHat-7.json
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+{
+  "_comments": [
+    "Add any comments here",
+    "(ref. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/244777/can-comments-be-used-in-json)",
+    "(ref. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2392766/multiline-strings-in-json)",
+    "epel-release: required for nginx, unar",
+    "gcc: required to build some pip dependencies",
+    "pip installed with get_pip, do not install package python-pip",
+    "virtualenv installed with pip, do not install package python-virtualenv"
+  ],
+  "osdeps_packages": [
+   { "name": "epel-release", "state": "latest"}
+  ],
+  "osdeps_packages_2": [
+   { "name": "nginx", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "unar", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "rsync", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "python-devel", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "libxml2-devel", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "libxslt-devel", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "zlib-devel", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "libffi-devel", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "openssl-devel", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "gcc", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "p7zip", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "p7zip-plugins", "state": "latest"}
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/osdeps/Ubuntu-16.json b/osdeps/Ubuntu-16.json
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-Ubuntu-14.json
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diff --git a/osdeps/Ubuntu-16.json b/osdeps/Ubuntu-16.json
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+{
+  "_comments": [
+    "Add any comments here",
+    "(ref. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/244777/can-comments-be-used-in-json)",
+    "(ref. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2392766/multiline-strings-in-json)",
+    "gcc: required to build some pip dependencies",
+    "pip installed with get_pip, do not install package python-pip",
+    "virtualenv installed with pip, do not install package python-virtualenv",
+    "build-essential is needed to compile brotli (cc1plus)"
+  ],
+  "osdeps_packages": [
+   { "name": "nginx", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "unar", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "rsync", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "p7zip-full", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "python-dev", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "build-essential", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "libmysqlclient-dev", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "libxml2-dev", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "libxslt1-dev", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "libz-dev", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "libffi-dev", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "libssl-dev", "state": "latest"},
+   { "name": "gcc", "state": "latest"}
+  ]
+}