Further instructions to INSTALL the GNU way

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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
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--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 ================== HOW RUN THE PYTHON BANK =====================
 
+----------------------------0 Preface --------------------------
+
+In order to get the whole bank's codebase, a submodule needs to be
+pulled; so from the bank's top directory, run
+
+$ git submodule update --init
+
+(this submodule carries some HTML/JS code which is reused among all
+Taler's Web components)
+
+As for the database backend, the bank uses PostgreSQL and needs a
+database called 'talertest' in it, owned by the user which launches
+the bank
+
 ---------------------1 The Pythonic way ------------------------
 
 Make sure your system has 'virtualenv' and 'pip' installed.
@@ -60,18 +74,38 @@ The '--prefix' option will point a directory which hosts both the virtualenv
 data and the bank's website itself
 
 $ ./configure
-$ make dependencies
+$ make
 $ make install
+# PHONY for the following two?
 $ make buildcss
-$ make builddb
+$ make definedb
+
+Though not strictly needed, the following step populates the database with
+sample data
+
+$ make populatedb
 
-If the previous steps was successful, then
+If the previous steps were successful, then
 
 $ cd PFX/src # where PFX is the location of '--prefix'
 $ ./taler-bank-wsgi.sh # this should launch the bank
 
 Please note that the bank works properly only via nginx since it uses
-SSI includes
+SSI includes.
+
+To quickly run the bank without nginx, do
+
+$ source PFX/venv/bin/activate
+$ cd PFX/src
+$ python manage.py runserver 127.0.0.1:8000
+
+To laterly populate the database, do
+
+$ source PFX/venv/bin/activate
+$ cd PFX/src
+$ python manage.py pre_accounts
+$ python manage.py sample_data
+
 
 ----------------- 3 How to bind Django and nginx ---------------