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@@ -104,3 +104,24 @@ onto the default video display element on your system.
   gst-launch-1.0 libcamerasrc camera-name="Camera 1" ! videoconvert ! autovideosink
 
 .. section-end-getting-started
+
+Troubleshooting
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Several users have reported issues with meson installation, crux of the issue
+is a potential version mismatch between the version that root uses, and the
+version that the normal user uses. On calling `ninja -C build`, it can't find
+the build.ninja module. This is a snippet of the error message.
+
+::
+
+  ninja: Entering directory `build'
+  ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': No such file or directory
+
+This can be solved in two ways:
+
+1) Don't install meson again if it is already installed system-wide.
+
+2) If a version of meson which is different from the system-wide version is
+already installed, uninstall that meson using pip3, and install again without
+the --user argument.