diff --git a/readme.rst b/readme.rst
index 9d5ba1a..a16f370 100644
--- a/readme.rst
+++ b/readme.rst
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ Pull requests welcome!
 In order to build the HTML locally with python3:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
-    
-    python -m venv .env
+
+    python -m venv .venv
+    source .venv/bin/activate
     pip install -r requirements.txt
     make html
 
@@ -17,4 +18,4 @@ In order to build the HTML locally with python3:
 .. |build-status| image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/musicdsp/badge/?version=latest
     :alt: build status
     :scale: 100%
-    :target: https://readthedocs.org/projects/musicdsp
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+    :target: https://readthedocs.org/projects/musicdsp