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 1. Pre-requesites for the fritzbox\_traffic and fritzbox\_uptime plugins are the [fritzconnection](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fritzconnection) and [requests](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests) package. To install it
 
-        pip install fritzconnection
-        pip install lxml
-        pip install requests
+        pip install -r requirements.txt
  
  fritzconnection requires python3. Make shure python --version is >= 3.6.  
 
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+fritzconnection
+lxml
+requests
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