diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 506f1de7..0bcf71ff 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -104,11 +104,11 @@ The Python bindings require the following packages:
 * python >= 2.7
 * python-setuptools
 
-If you are using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty), run the following to install the needed packages::
+If you are using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) or Debian 7.0 (wheezy) and above run the following to install the needed packages::
 
-    sudo apt-get install make binutils autoconf  automake autotools-dev libtool pkg-config \
+    sudo apt-get install g++ make binutils autoconf automake autotools-dev libtool pkg-config \
       zlib1g-dev libcunit1-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libev-dev libevent-dev libjansson-dev \
-      libjemalloc-dev cython python3.4-dev python-setuptools
+      libjemalloc-dev cython python3-dev python-setuptools
 
 spdylay is not packaged in Ubuntu, so you need to build it yourself:
 http://tatsuhiro-t.github.io/spdylay/