diff --git a/docs/development/overview.md b/docs/development/overview.md
index d6f49214ac..6d2c5e1e57 100644
--- a/docs/development/overview.md
+++ b/docs/development/overview.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ want to or can't use Vagrant, Zulip supports a wide range of ways to install
 the Zulip development environment on **macOS and Linux (Ubuntu
 recommended)**:
 
-* On **Ubuntu** 16.04 Xenial and 14.04 Trusty and **Debian** 9
+* On **Ubuntu** 18.04 Bionic, 16.04 Xenial and 14.04 Trusty and **Debian** 9
   Stretch, you can easily
   **[install without using Vagrant][install-direct]**.
 * On **other Linux** distributions, you'll need to follow slightly different
diff --git a/docs/development/setup-advanced.md b/docs/development/setup-advanced.md
index 1f64877087..efb17c5dea 100644
--- a/docs/development/setup-advanced.md
+++ b/docs/development/setup-advanced.md
@@ -67,8 +67,10 @@ git remote add -f upstream https://github.com/zulip/zulip.git
 sudo apt-get install closure-compiler libfreetype6-dev libffi-dev \
     memcached rabbitmq-server libldap2-dev redis-server \
     postgresql-server-dev-all libmemcached-dev python3-dev \
-    python-dev python-virtualenv hunspell-en-us git yui-compressor \
-    puppet gettext postgresql
+    python-dev python-virtualenv hunspell-en-us git \
+    yui-compressor puppet gettext postgresql \
+    libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev \
+    libcurl4-openssl-dev
 
 # If using Ubuntu, install PGroonga from its PPA
 sudo add-apt-repository -ys ppa:groonga/ppa