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@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ To read from one of the supported databases with `ConnectorX` you need to activa
 $ pip install connectorx
 ```
 
+Note: connectorx cannot be installed on ARM architectures from pip. See [this thread](https://github.com/sfu-db/connector-x/issues/186) for manual build instructions.
+
 #### ADBC
 
 ADBC (Arrow Database Connectivity) is an engine supported by the Apache Arrow project. ADBC aims to be both an API standard for connecting to databases and libraries implementing this standard in a range of languages.