-Simply clone this repository into ~/.vim and invoke install.sh therein. The
-install script just creates symlinks to vim/gvim/neovim configuration files and
-directories.
+### Requirements
+
+The install script that is shipped with this configuration also checks
+for the following requirements:
+
+ - python3 support for vim/gvim
+ - neovim python3 module
+ - aspell
+
+Under a Debian-like Linux system you can install these by the following commands
+
+````
+sudo apt-get install aspell aspell-de python3-pip
+pip3 install neovim
+````
+
+Note that vim-tiny in Debian does not support python3, but vim-nox, vim-gtk3 or
+neovim does. You also want to make sure that you have curl and git installed.
+
+### Clone & install
+
+If you already have a vim configuration in place then you may first move your
+`~/.vim` directory first
+
+````
+mv ~/.vim ~/.vim-old
+````
+
+Assuming that there is no `~/.vim` anymore, simply clone this repository into
+`~/.vim` and invoke `install.sh` therein.