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 pip install ai-edge-torch-nightly
 ```
 
+### Update LD_LIBRARY_PATH if necessary
+
+Torch XLA builds a shared library, `_XLAC.so` that needs to link to the version of Python
+it was built with (currently 3.10 or 3.11). In order to ensure that `import _XLAC` can succeed,
+update the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the lib directory of your Python environment:
+
+```bash
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<path to Python installation>/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+```
+
+
 * The list of versioned releases can be seen [here](https://github.com/google-ai-edge/ai-edge-torch/releases).
 * The full list of PyPi releases (including nightly builds) can be seen [here](https://pypi.org/project/ai-edge-torch/#history).