diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6308622c..a6d40499 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Express dependency between services, which has two effects:
 	It creates a user, frappe inside the frappe container, whose working directory is /home/frappe. It also clones
 	the bench-repo from [here](https://github.com/frappe/bench)
 
-		docker-compose up -d
+		sudo docker-compose up -d
 
 	Note: Please do not remove the bench-repo directory the above commands will create