diff --git a/packages/app-shell/README.md b/packages/app-shell/README.md
index 3f9442f47e896eccf346d7feefcf09de1dd5252a..f70ee1d755ae3eb84f4c621c750b063f614884ca 100644
--- a/packages/app-shell/README.md
+++ b/packages/app-shell/README.md
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ activities. Handles login, language selection, activity switching, menus etc.
 git clone git@gitlab.tugraz.at:dbp/web-components/toolkit.git
 cd toolkit/packages/app-shell
 
-# install dependencies (make sure you have npm version 4+ installed, so symlinks to the git submodules are created automatically)
+# install dependencies
 yarn install
 
 # constantly build dist/bundle.js and run a local web-server on port 8002 
diff --git a/packages/check-in-place-select/README.md b/packages/check-in-place-select/README.md
index 1f9be4d90c7aea8c93c522808df5d0874738ec91..81f53f09910d46f35479d504626fa2130d7ff27e 100644
--- a/packages/check-in-place-select/README.md
+++ b/packages/check-in-place-select/README.md
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 git clone git@gitlab.tugraz.at:dbp/web-components/toolkit.git
 cd toolkit/packages/check-in-place-select
 
-# install dependencies (make sure you have npm version 4+ installed, so symlinks to the git submodules are created automatically)
+# install dependencies
 yarn install
 
 # constantly build dist/bundle.js and run a local web-server on port 8002 
diff --git a/packages/qr-code-scanner/README.md b/packages/qr-code-scanner/README.md
index 9c2ed0af8474f2910b4358543fd18260bf66d8cf..29961b5f1bfffd4499bc2baa62026acfc77a8dc4 100644
--- a/packages/qr-code-scanner/README.md
+++ b/packages/qr-code-scanner/README.md
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ after loaded. This attribute is also used to stop the QR code reader or if you d
 git clone git@gitlab.tugraz.at:dbp/web-components/qr-code-scanner.git
 cd qr-code-scanner
 
-# install dependencies (make sure you have npm version 4+ installed, so symlinks to the git submodules are created automatically)
+# install dependencies
 yarn install
 
 # constantly build dist/bundle.js and run a local web-server on port 8002