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[lyx.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 7b916528c4797dcf069e2eef0045c6828eb51f27..1b472854099115a417b1efac60893e38ef2f91a9 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -6,14 +6,14 @@ Quick compilation guide
 
 These four steps will compile, test and install LyX:
 
-       0) Linux users beware: if compiling the Qt frontend, you need
-           qt4 and qt4-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX.
+       0) Linux users beware: You need qt4 and qt4-devel packages 
+          of the same version to compile LyX.
 
        1) ./configure
           configures LyX according to your system. 
-          When compiling for Qt, you may have to set
-             --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation>
-           if the environment variable QTDIR is not set. 
+          You may have to set
+           --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation>
+     if the environment variable QTDIR is not set. 
           See Note below if ./configure script is not present.
 
        2) make
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Note for Subversion (SVN) checkouts
 -----------------------------
 
 If you have checked this out from Subversion, you need to have:
-* automake >= 1.5
+* automake >= 1.8
 * autoconf >= 2.59c
 * gettext >= 0.12
 Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ files and proceed as stated below.
 
 You will also probably need GNU m4 (perhaps installed as gm4).
 
+
 Requirements
 ------------
 
@@ -49,10 +50,10 @@ LyX 1.6.x 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 Qt 4.4.x and 4.5.x. For compilation you
-need to compile against at least Qt 4.4.2. 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.
+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.
 
 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