Merge pull request #3509 from lonvia/deprecations

[nominatim.git] / packaging / nominatim-db / README.md

diff --git a/packaging/nominatim-db/README.md b/packaging/nominatim-db/README.md
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@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ command-line tool for importing and maintaining the database.
 ### Prerequisites
 
 Nominatim requires [osm2pgsql](https://osm2pgsql.org/) (>=1.8) for reading
-OSM data and [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org/) to store the data.
+OSM data and [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org/) (>=9.6) to store the data.
 
-On Ubuntu (>=23.04) and Debian (using backports), you can install them with:
+On Ubuntu (>=23.04) and Debian (when using backports), you can install them with:
 
     sudo apt-get install osm2pgsql postgresql-postgis
 
@@ -30,21 +30,24 @@ To install Nominatim from pypi, run:
 First create a project directory for your new Nominatim database, which
 is the space for additional configuration and customization:
 
-    mkdir planet-project
+    mkdir nominatim-project
+
+Make sure you run all nominatim commands from within the project directory:
+
+    cd nominatim-project
 
 Download an appropriate data extract, for example from
 [Geofabrik](https://download.geofabrik.de/) and import the file:
 
     nominatim import --osm-file <downlaoded-osm-data.pbf>
 
-You will need to install the 'nominatim-api' package to query the
-database.
+You will need to install the [`nominatim-api`](https://pypi.org/project/nominatim-api/)
+package to query the database.
 
 ## Documentation
 
-The documentation of the latest development version is in the
-`docs/` subdirectory. A HTML version can be found at
-https://nominatim.org/release-docs/develop/ .
+A HTML version of the documentation can be found at
+https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/ .
 
 ## License