diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c69ec8e..501b2a8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ $ python3 -m venv .venv
 $ source .venv/bin/activate
 ```
 
+(to leave the virtual environment, the command is simply `deactivate`)
+
 ## Configure the Environment
 
 ```bash
@@ -68,7 +70,9 @@ If you run into issues with `psycopg2` you may need to run the following:
 $ pip3 uninstall psycopg2 && pip3 install --no-binary :all: psycopg2
 ```
 
-## Ensure Postgres is running and accessible
+## Set up database
+
+### Method 1
 
 You should be able to connect to Postgres:
 
@@ -86,6 +90,34 @@ to change the Postgres authentication options (NB on Fedora / Centos,
 $ echo "ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'postgres';" | psql -U postgres
 ```
 
+### Method 2
+
+First you need to switch to the user called postgres - in Linux do
+
+```bash
+$ sudo su postgres
+```
+Then get an interactive postgres shell
+
+```
+$ psql
+```
+
+Then create a database and a user, and ensure to make the user a superuser (otherwise you will run into trouble when doing the migration and it tries to enable the postgis extension).
+
+```bash
+postgres=# create database ojuso;
+postgres=# create user ojuso WITH PASSWORD 'ojuso'; 
+postgres=# alter role ojuso SET client_encoding TO 'utf8'; // this is recommended for django
+postgres=# alter role ojuso SET default_transaction_isolation TO 'read committed'; // so is this
+postgres=# grant all privileges on database ojuso to ojuso;
+postgres=# alter user ojuso with superuser;  
+```
+Type `\q` to exist the postgres shell.
+
+Then, in `ojuso-map/ojusomap/settings.py`, edit the `DATABASES` section to add the database name, user and password, which are all 'ojuso' unless you chose different ones in the previous step.
+
+
 ## Run The Migrations
 
 ```bash
diff --git a/system-requirements-debian.txt b/system-requirements-debian.txt
index 2285a2b..eb7ef71 100644
--- a/system-requirements-debian.txt
+++ b/system-requirements-debian.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ libgdal-dev
 python3-gdal
 gdal-bin
 postgresql
+postgis