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📝 add troubleshooting instructions for libudev.so.0 failure

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Adding the easiest solution for solving the missing libudev.so.0 error
on ubuntu 13.04+.

I had to do this on my own machine running ubuntu 14.04.2 to build atom.

The solution is also referenced in
https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/wiki/The-solution-of-lacking-libudev.so.0
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@ -90,6 +90,30 @@ If you got an error like this:
libchromiumcontent.so is build with clang 3.0 which is incompatible with newer
versions of clang. Try using clang 3.0, default version in Ubuntu 12.04.
### libudev.so.0 missing
If you get an error like:
````
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libudev.so.0, needed by /home/suyash/projects/atom-shell/vendor/brightray/vendor/download/libchromiumcontent/Release/libchromiumcontent.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
````
and you are on Ubuntu 13.04+, 64 bit system, try doing
```bash
sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1.3.5 /usr/lib/libudev.so.0
```
for ubuntu 13.04+ 32 bit systems, try doing
```bash
sudo ln -s /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1.3.5 /usr/lib/libudev.so.0
```
also see
https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/wiki/The-solution-of-lacking-libudev.so.0
## Tests
```bash