diff --git a/docs/community/contributing.md b/docs/community/contributing.md
index 2232bd10b..994226b97 100644
--- a/docs/community/contributing.md
+++ b/docs/community/contributing.md
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ To run the tests, clone the repository, and then:
     # Setup the virtual environment
     python3 -m venv env
     source env/bin/activate
-    pip install django
+    pip install -e .
     pip install -r requirements.txt
 
     # Run the tests
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 395f3b7a8..c3a1f1187 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # The base set of requirements for REST framework is actually
-# just Django, but for the purposes of development and testing
-# there are a number of packages that are useful to install.
+# just Django and pytz, but for the purposes of development
+# and testing there are a number of packages that are useful
+# to install.
 
 # Laying these out as separate requirements files, allows us to
 # only included the relevant sets when running tox, and ensures