diff --git a/contrib/spoa_server/README b/contrib/spoa_server/README
index 341f5f9..f654a23 100644
--- a/contrib/spoa_server/README
+++ b/contrib/spoa_server/README
@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@
 You have to install the development packages, either from the
 distribution repositories or from the source.
 
-CentOS/RHEL: yum install python-devel
+CentOS/RHEL: sudo yum install python3-devel
 
-The current python version in use is 2.7.
+The current minimal python version compatible with this library is 2.7.
+It's recommended to use python version 3 where possible due to python 2 deprecation.
 
 
   Compilation
@@ -28,6 +29,11 @@
 You can add LUA_INC=.. LUA_LIB=.. to the make command to set the paths to
 the lua header files and lua libraries.
 
+Similarly, you can add PYTHON_INC=.. PYTHON_LIB=.. to the make command to set the paths to
+the python header files and python libraries.
+By default, it will try to compile by detecting the default python 3 parameters.
+It will fall back to python 2 if python 3 is not available.
+
   Start the service
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