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 swh-journal
 ===========
 
 Persistent logger of changes to the archive, with publish-subscribe support.
 
 See the
 [documentation](https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-journal/index.html#software-heritage-journal)
 for more details.
 
 # Local test
 
-As a pre-requisite, you need a kakfa installation path.
-The following target will take care of this:
-
-```
-make install
-```
-
-Then, provided you are in the right virtual environment as described
+Provided you are in the right virtual environment as described
 in the [swh getting-started](https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/developer-setup.html#developer-setup):
 
 ```
 pytest
 ```
 
 or:
 
 ```
 tox
 ```
 
 
 # Running
 
 ## publisher
 
 Command:
 ```
 $ swh-journal --config-file ~/.config/swh/journal/publisher.yml \
               publisher
 ```
 
 # Auto-completion
 
 To have the completion, add the following in your
 ~/.virtualenvs/swh/bin/postactivate:
 
 ```
 eval "$(_SWH_JOURNAL_COMPLETE=$autocomplete_cmd swh-journal)"
 ```