--- a/README.txt	Sun Jul 26 14:32:32 2015 -0400
+++ b/README.txt	Sun Jul 26 12:42:36 2015 -0400
@@ -25,24 +25,27 @@
 DEPENDENCIES
 ------------
 
-hg-fastimport requires Mercurial 1.3.
+hg-fastimport depends on:
+
+  * Mercurial 1.6, 1.7, or 1.8
+  * python-fastimport
 
-hg-fastimport depends on the python-fastimport library (which was extracted
-from bzr-fastimport).  python-fastimport lives on launchpad.net at
+The easiest way to get python-fastimport to use OS packages. E.g. for
+Debian and Ubuntu:
 
-  https://code.launchpad.net/python-fastimport
+  sudo aptitude install python-fastimport
 
-To make the 'fastimport' package provided by python-fastimport available
-to hg-fastimport, you need to add the python-fastimport directory to
-PYTHONPATH, e.g.
+Likewise for Fedora:
 
-  PYTHONPATH=$HOME/src/pyfastimport
+  sudo yum install python-fastimport
+
+On other operating systems, you can install from PyPI:
 
-It should also be possible to install python-fastimport from cheeshop:
+  pip install fastimport
 
- $ easy_install install python-fastimport
+If all else fails, you can find the source for python-fastimport here:
 
-And most Linux distributions have it packaged.
+  https://github.com/jelmer/python-fastimport
 
 USAGE
 -----
@@ -51,8 +54,8 @@
 
   fastimport = /path/to/hg-fastimport/hgfastimport
 
-to the [extensions] section of your hgrc.  Don't forget to set
-PYTHONPATH as explained above.
+to the [extensions] section of your hgrc. Don't forget to install
+python-fastimport as explained above.
 
 To import into a brand-new Mercurial repository: