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@@ -84,9 +84,10 @@ The following settings should probably be changed:
 + The database settings
 + The UPLOAD\_FS\_GROUP to the id of the group that should access and create the uploaded images
 
-For the database, postgresql is used. Install it by running `sudo apt install postgresql`
+For the database, postgresql is used. Install it by running `sudo apt install postgresql` on Debian based operating systems. A default database cluster is automatically initialized.
 
-Initialize the database cluster with `sudo -iu postgres initdb --locale en_US.UTF-8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'`
+Other systems may require different commands to install the package and the database cluster may
+have to be initialized manually (e.g. using `sudo -iu postgres initdb --locale en_US.UTF-8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'`).
 
 To start the postgresql server, run `sudo systemctl start postgresql.service`. If the server should always be started on boot, run `sudo systemctl enable postgresql.service`.