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@@ -17,24 +17,24 @@ Note: the following instructions are given assuming you are using `bash` as your
 ```bash
 export PREFIX="/path/to/your/prefix"; mkdir -p $PREFIX
 ```
-## Install all necessary dependencies
-Ensure you have `cmake`, ROOT, a modern c++ compiler (gcc4.8+ or clang3.5+) and `gfortran` installed
-### nanocernlib
-You will need to install a the necessary cernlib routines through the `nanocernlib` library.
+## Set the repository
 ```bash
-mkdir -p ${PREFIX}/src && cd ${PREFIX}/src
-git clone https://gitlab.com/tmdmc/nanocernlib.git
-mkdir -p nanocernlib/BUILD && cd nanocernlib/BUILD
-cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${PREFIX} -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=${PREFIX}
-make -j4
-make install
+export REPO="<enter the git repository here>"
 ```
 
+## Install all necessary dependencies
+Ensure you have 
+- `cmake` 
+- ROOT 
+- the Boost C++ libraries 
+- a modern c++ compiler (gcc4.8+ or clang3.5+) 
+- `gfortran`
+
 ## Build and install pythia6m
 Once you have all dependencies installed, you are ready to build pythia6m
 ```bash
 mkdir -p ${PREFIX}/src && cd ${PREFIX}/src
-git clone https://gitlab.com/tmdmc/pythia6m.git
+git clone ${REPO}
 mkdir -p pythia6m/BUILD && cd pythia6m/BUILD
 cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${PREFIX} -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=${PREFIX}
 make -j4
@@ -57,11 +57,16 @@ You can view the command line options by running
 pythia6m -h
 ```
 It requires the following arguments:
-- `--conf`: a configuration file, see `$PREFIX/src/pythia6m/program/example-config.json` for an example.
+- `--conf`: a configuration file, see `$PREFIX/share/pythia6m/example-config.json` for an example.
 - `--run`: a run number. This is also used as the random seed for this run
 - `--events`: the number of events to be generated
 - `--out`: the output directory. This is where the output files will be placed
 
+## Advanced 
+Instead of running the main executable, you can make your own program in C++ using program/pythia6m.cc as example. 
+If you do this, you can use `cmake` to directly link to the pythia librariers.
+Alternatively, you could also modify the main program directly (located in the program/pythia6m.cc source file). This latter option is only recommended for quick studies.
+
 ## Output
 The generated events are written to a ROOT TTree. The following variables are written to the tree for each of the generated events:
 ```c++
@@ -102,4 +107,4 @@ double y;           // Generated y
 double W2;          // Generated W2
 int32_t scat_index; // the C-index of the scattered (NOT THE FORTRAN INDEX)
                     // of the scattered lepton
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```