diff --git a/VPS.md b/VPS.md
index e336697ab..dea05a189 100644
--- a/VPS.md
+++ b/VPS.md
@@ -5,11 +5,15 @@ The first step is installing some essential dependencies from your VPS's package
 
 #### Ubuntu/Debian
 
-    sudo apt-get install git libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libpq-dev libsqlite3-dev build-essential postgresql screen
+    sudo apt-get install git libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libpq-dev libsqlite3-dev build-essential postgresql libreadline-dev
 
 #### CentOS/Fedora
 
-    sudo yum install git libxml2-devel libxslt-devel libcurl4-devel libpq-devel libsqlite3-devel  make automake gcc gcc-c++ postgresql screen
+    sudo yum install git libxml2-devel libxslt-devel curl-devel postgresql-devel sqlite-devel  make automake gcc gcc-c++ postgresql-server readline-devel openssl-devel
+
+On CentOS after installing Postgres, I needed to run these commands, Fedora likely the same.
+
+    service postgresql initdb && service postgresql start
 
 Set up the database
 ===================
@@ -78,7 +82,7 @@ Tell stringer to run the database in production mode, using the postgres databas
 
 Run the application:
 
-    screen -d "bundle exec foreman start"
+    bundle exec foreman start
 
 Set up a cron job to parse the rss feeds.