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 Ideas:
 * a GUI app to review or interact with the Linux Audit backend
   * https://github.com/mismailzz/CMAuditd_v2/blob/master/cmauditd.py is a prior-art example
+
+## Set up
+
+```shell
+python3 -m venv beeware-venv
+. ./beeware-venv/bin/activate
+python3 -m pip install briefcase
+```