* add an extra parameter to lyxsweave.py that tells the document directory

[lyx.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 9e4b462c6c9209de759bc93cf357617ceb4e3879..0eabaf160977984cda3107962c198aa2675d8483 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ These four steps will compile, test and install LyX:
           configures LyX according to your system. 
           You may have to set
            --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation>
-     if the environment variable QTDIR is not set (for exaple,
+     if the environment variable QTDIR is not set (for example,
      '--with-qt4-dir=/usr/share/qt4/'). Alternatively, you could
      install pkgconfig (the name might vary depending on your 
      distribution). 
@@ -49,14 +49,14 @@ Requirements
 First of all, you will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent
 means that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming (gcc 4.x).
 
-LyX 1.6.x makes great use of C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
+LyX makes great use of C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
 This means that gcc users will have to install the relevant libstdc++
 library to be able to compile this version of LyX. 
 
-LyX has been tested with all Qt versions since Qt 4.2.2. For compilation
-you need to compile against at least Qt 4.2.2. The only special point to
-make is that you must ensure that both LyX and the Qt libraries are
-compiled with the same C++ compiler.
+For full LyX usability we suggest to use at least Qt 4.6 which has been
+widely tested. For compilation you need to compile against at least
+Qt 4.2.2. The only special point to make is that you must ensure that both
+LyX and the Qt libraries are compiled with the same C++ compiler.
 
 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
 latex-xft-fonts package (at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/) to get
@@ -69,6 +69,11 @@ at the console. Most recent distributions are known to use fontconfig.
 If, however, your version of Qt does not use fontconfig, then TeX
 fonts should be added to the font path. 'man xset' is your friend.
 
+To build LyX with spell checking capabilities included you have to
+install at least one of the development packages of the spell checker
+libraries. See the RELEASE-NOTES for details.
+
+
 * Other things to note
 
 If you make modifications to files in src/ (for example by applying a
@@ -77,10 +82,6 @@ to some dependencies in the makefiles. You can get the latest version
 from:
        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/
 
-To use the thesaurus, you will need to install libAikSaurus, available
-from:
-       http://aiksaurus.sourceforge.net/
-
 The two following programs should be available at configuration time:
 
   o LaTeX2e should be correctly setup for the user you are logged in
@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ The two following programs should be available at configuration time:
 
   o Python 2.3 or newer installed to be able to import older LyX files
     with the lyx2lyx script (this script is called automatically when
-    opening a file).
+    opening a file). Python 3.0 or later is not supported.
 
 
 Creating the Makefile