Tweak pyserial installation instructions

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## Requirements
### Arduino IDE
You need to have the Arduino IDE. You can either install it through the
installer or download the distribution zip file and extract it.
### pySerial
The Makefile also delegates resetting the board to a short Python program.
You'll need to install `pySerial` to use it though.
You'll need to install `[pySerial](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial)` to use it though.
On most systems you should be able to install it using either `pip` or `easy_install`.
```sh
pip install pyserial
# or if you prefer easy_install
easy_install -U pyserial
```
If you prefer to install it as a package, then you can do that as well.
On Debian or Ubuntu:
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On Windows:
You need to install Cygwin and its packages for Make, Perl and the following Serial library.
```sh
pySerial can be downloaded from PyPi
```
On other systems:
```sh
pip install pyserial
# or
easy_install -U pyserial
```
You need to install Cygwin and its packages for Make, Perl and the following Serial library
or you can install it using the [pre-built package installer](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial)
## Usage