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promtail: clarify Linux build instructions in docs #791

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```

To run Promtail, use the following commands:
To build Promtail on non-Linux platforms, use the following command:

```bash
$ go build ./cmd/promtail
```

On Linux, promtail requires the systemd headers to be installed for
Journal support. Promtail can be built with Journal support on Ubuntu
with the following commands:

```bash
$ sudo apt install libsystemd-dev
$ go build ./cmd/promtail
```

Otherwise, to build promtail without Journal support, run `go build`
with CGO disabled:

```bash
$ CGO_ENABLED=0 go build ./cmd/promtail
```

Once Promtail is built, to run Promtail, use the following command:

```bash
$ ./promtail -config.file=./cmd/promtail/promtail-local-config.yaml
...
```
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