diff --git a/docs/src/development/windows.md b/docs/src/development/windows.md
index b9c0dd2477..6178bac762 100644
--- a/docs/src/development/windows.md
+++ b/docs/src/development/windows.md
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ cargo test --workspace
 [MSYS2](https://msys2.org/) distribution provides Zed as a package. To download the prebuilt binary, run
 
 ```
+pacman -Syu
 pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-zed
 ```