diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e32d5c5a4..0b54b279b 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -525,6 +525,12 @@ elseif (${ARCHITECTURE} MATCHES "armv7l")
     else()
         set(HAS_NEON OFF CACHE BOOL "Architecture does not have NEON SIMD enabled")
     endif()
+elseif (${ARCHITECTURE} MATCHES "aarch64")
+    set(HAS_NEON ON CACHE BOOL FORCE "Architecture has NEON SIMD enabled")
+    if(CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX OR CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_CLANGXX)
+        message(STATUS "Aarch64 always has NEON SIMD instructions")
+        add_definitions(-DUSE_NEON)
+    endif()
 endif()
 
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diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index 922ef33ca..821efde6f 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -290,7 +290,9 @@ For Debian Jessie or Stretch:
 
 This has been tested with the bleeding edge "Thumbleweed" distribution:
 
-`sudo zypper install cmake fftw3-devel gcc-c++ libusb-1_0-devel libqt5-qtbase-devel libQt5OpenGL-devel libqt5-qtmultimedia-devel libqt5-qttools-devel libQt5Network-devel libQt5Widgets-devel boost-devel alsa-devel pulseaudio`
+`sudo zypper install Mesa-libGL1 Mesa-libEGL-devel Mesa-libGL-devel Mesa-libGLESv1_CM-devel Mesa-libGLESv2-devel Mesa-libGLESv3-devel Mesa-libglapi-devel libOSMesa-devel` 
+
+`sudo zypper install cmake fftw3-devel gcc-c++ libusb-1_0-devel libqt5-qtbase-devel libQt5OpenGL-devel libqt5-qtmultimedia-devel libqt5-qttools-devel libQt5Network-devel libQt5Widgets-devel boost-devel alsa-devel pulseaudio opencv-devel`
 
 Then you should be all set to build the software with `cmake` and `make` as discussed earlier.