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-## This is the privacyIDEA PHP Client
+## privacyIDEA PHP Client
 
-This library will help you to connect your plugin to the privacyIDEA server using REST APIs.
+This project is intended to ease the use of the privacyIDEA server REST API.
 
 ## Requirements
 
-To use our client lib you have to install curl on your machine. If you have installed our client
-with Composer you don't need to think about it, because Composer will do it for you automatically.
-To avoid bugs we also advise you to install PHP >=7.3.
+Curl is required for this project to work. If this project is installed using composer, curl is installed automatically.
+A PHP Version >=7.3 is preferred.
 
-## Connecting & Composer
+## Composer
 
-You can add our library to your repository as a submodule or install it using Composer.
-
-To install our repository with Composer, run this command in Terminal:
+To install with Composer, run the following command:
 
 `composer require privacyidea/privacyidea-php-client`
 
-Next, you have to run:
+then:
 
 `composer update`
 
-You can also decide which version of our package you want to install.
-For more information read the Composer documentation.
-
-To install Composer follow this link:
-https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md
-
 Required Composer version is >=2.0.