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+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -6,8 +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
+           qt and qt-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX. 
+
        1) ./configure
-          configures LyX to your system.
+          configures LyX to your system. By default, LyX configures
+           the xforms frontend, use --with-frontend=qt to build a Qt
+           version. You may have to set 
+           --with-qt-dir=<path-to-your-qt-installation> to succeed.
 
        2) make
           compiles the program.
@@ -41,7 +47,7 @@ experience with other compilers. It is _not_ possible to compile LyX
 with gcc 2.7.x and 2.8.x, and this is not likely to change in the
 future.
 
-Note that, contrary to LyX 1.0.x, LyX 1.2.x makes great use of C++
+Note that, contrary to LyX 1.0.x, LyX 1.3.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.
@@ -137,10 +143,14 @@ to create the Makefile by typing
 For more complicated cases, LyX configure takes the following specific
 flags:
 
-  o --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY that specifies the path where LyX will find
-    extra libraries (Xpm, xforms) it needs.  Defaults to NONE (i.e. search
-    in standard places).  You can specify several directories, separated
-    by colons.
+  o --with-frontend=FRONTEND that allows to specify which frontend you
+    want to use. Default is "xforms", and the other possible value is
+    "qt".
+
+  o --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY that specifies the path where LyX will
+    find extra libraries (Xpm, xforms, qt) it needs. Defaults to NONE
+    (i.e. search in standard places). You can specify several
+    directories, separated by colons.
 
   o --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY that gives the place where LyX will find
     xforms headers.  Defaults to NONE (i.e.  search in standard places).
@@ -150,18 +160,20 @@ flags:
        --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY/lib --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY/include
     If DIRECTORY is not specified, the current prefix is used.
 
-  o --with-version-suffix will install LyX as lyx-<version>, e.g. lyx-1.2.0
-    The LyX data directory will be something like <whatever>/lyx-1.2.0/.
+  o --with-version-suffix will install LyX as lyx-<version>, e.g. lyx-1.3.1
+    The LyX data directory will be something like <whatever>/lyx-1.3.1/.
     Additionally your user configuration files will be found in e.g.
-    $HOME/.lyx-1.2.0
+    $HOME/.lyx-1.3.1
 
-    You can use this feature to install more than one version of LyX on
-    the same system. You can optionally specify a "version" of your own,
-    by doing something like : ./configure --with-version-suffix=-latestcvs
+    You can use this feature to install more than one version of LyX
+    on the same system. You can optionally specify a "version" of your
+    own, by doing something like : 
+       ./configure --with-version-suffix=-latestcvs
 
-    Note that the standard configure options --program-prefix,--program-suffix
-    and the others will not affect the shared LyX directory etc. so it
-    is recommended that you use --with-version-suffix (or --prefix) instead.
+    Note that the standard configure options --program-prefix,
+    --program-suffix and the others will not affect the shared LyX
+    directory etc. so it is recommended that you use --with-version-suffix
+    (or --prefix) instead.
 
   o --enable-optimization=VALUE enables you to set optimization to a
     higher level as the default (-O), for example --enable-optimization=-O3.