diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index eec62096ec32..4f708e8b41c1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ cmd/promtail/promtail
 mixin/vendor/
 pkg/logproto/logproto.pb.go
 pkg/parser/labels.go
+tempo
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ebd70773cf1c..5a67fee80ad2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ all: $(UPTODATE_FILES)
 test: $(PROTO_GOS) $(YACC_GOS)
 yacc: $(YACC_GOS)
 protos: $(PROTO_GOS)
+yacc: $(YACC_GOS)
 
 # And now what goes into each image
 tempo-build-image/$(UPTODATE): tempo-build-image/*
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cc5614381a3d..c486641ea78a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,6 +6,17 @@ Tempo is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant, log aggregatio
 system inspired by Prometheus.  It is design to be very cost effective, as it does
 not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log steam.
 
+## Run it locally
+
+Tempo can be run in a single host, no-dependancies mode using the following commands:
+
+```
+$ make protos yacc
+$ go build ./cmd/tempo
+$ ./tempo -config.file=./doc/local.yaml
+...
+```
+
 ## Usage Instructions
 
 Tempo is running in the ops-tools1 cluster.  You can query logs from that cluster