diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c88f54a..55ea347 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ Immediate goals:
 
 ### Prerequisites:
 
-This project requires bash, wget or curl, and a C++ compiler.
+This project requires bash and a C++20 compiler.
+
+The project setup requires wget or curl, gzip, and tar.
 
 **For people using other shells than bash:** You need to at least have bash
 installed to use the scripts, but using it as your shell while working on
@@ -30,7 +32,8 @@ this project also allows you to use the provided aliases.
 
 If you don’t want to use bash as your shell, not even temporarily for this
 project, you can use the scripts by running them from the project's base
-directory and run any generated executables with `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` set to point to `bin/lib`.
+directory and run any generated executables with `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` set to
+point to `bin/lib`.
 
 
 ### Setup