diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4b8c6f6..a6ec745 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@
 
  *  For OSX, the prerequisites can be installed using Homebrew:
 <pre>
-    brew install boost sqlite3 mysql jsoncpp
+    brew install boost sqlite3 mysql jsoncpp hdf5 openssl cryptopp protobuf
+    pip3 install mysql-connector-python --allow-all-external
+    pip3 install netCDF4
+
 </pre>
 
  * For Ubuntu, use the command below to install the prerequisites:
@@ -40,8 +43,12 @@
     sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev libssl-dev libcrypto++-dev \
                         libsqlite3-dev libmysqlclient-dev libjsoncpp-dev \
                         protobuf-compiler libprotobuf-dev netcdf4-python \
-                        python3-mysql.connector
+                        python3-mysql.connector python3-pip libhdf5-dev \
+                        libnetcdf-dev python3-numpy
+
+  sudo pip3 install netCDF4
 </pre>
+
  * For Fedora, use the command below to install the prerequisites:
 <pre>
     sudo yum install boost-devel openssl-devel cryptopp-devel sqlite3x-devel \
@@ -125,7 +132,7 @@
 ---------------------------
 1. For the translator, ndn_cmmap_translator library is required to be in PYTHONPATH
 <pre>
-     export PYTHONPATH="full path to /ndn-atmos/lib/ndn_cmmap_translators":$PYTHONPATH
+     export PYTHONPATH="full path to /ndn-atmos/lib":$PYTHONPATH
 </pre>
 
 
@@ -207,7 +214,7 @@
 <pre>
   git clone http://github.com/named-data/ndn-js.git
   cd ndn-js
-  git checkout v0.8.1 (or the latest version)
+  git checkout v0.8.1
 </pre>
 
 * Start python simple server in the client folder (ndn-atmos/client)
diff --git a/lib/ndn_cmmap_translators/__init__.py b/lib/ndn_cmmap_translators/__init__.py
index e69de29..a5c4e6b 100644
--- a/lib/ndn_cmmap_translators/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ndn_cmmap_translators/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+'''define the modules here so that they can be imported'''
+__all__ = ["atmos2ndn_parser", "atmos2ndn_translators"]
+
diff --git a/lib/ndn_cmmap_translators/atmos2ndn_translators/translate.py b/lib/ndn_cmmap_translators/atmos2ndn_translators/translate.py
index 10fd9b6..2eb4a26 100644
--- a/lib/ndn_cmmap_translators/atmos2ndn_translators/translate.py
+++ b/lib/ndn_cmmap_translators/atmos2ndn_translators/translate.py
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
 import netCDF4
 import glob
 import os
-from atmos2ndn_parser import cmd_arg_parser
-from atmos2ndn_parser import conf_file_parser
+from ndn_cmmap_translators.atmos2ndn_parser import cmd_arg_parser
+from ndn_cmmap_translators.atmos2ndn_parser import conf_file_parser
 from . import cmip5_translator
 
 def translate(parsedConfig, dataFilepath):
diff --git a/lib/ndn_cmmap_translators/atmos_translator.py b/lib/ndn_cmmap_translators/atmos_translator.py
index 280d0d2..a12b420 100644
--- a/lib/ndn_cmmap_translators/atmos_translator.py
+++ b/lib/ndn_cmmap_translators/atmos_translator.py
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
 
 '''Translates a netcdf filename to a NDN name'''
 
-from atmos2ndn_parser import conf_file_parser, cmd_arg_parser
-from atmos2ndn_translators import translate
+from ndn_cmmap_translators.atmos2ndn_parser import conf_file_parser, cmd_arg_parser
+from ndn_cmmap_translators.atmos2ndn_translators import translate
 
 def argsForTranslation(dataFilepath, configPath):
     '''this module does the actual translation calls'''