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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index b5e45530a1..3c981a4435 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -6,14 +6,17 @@ 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 (for example,
+     '--with-qt4-dir=/usr/share/qt4/'). Alternatively, you could
+     install pkgconfig (the name might vary depending on your 
+     distribution). 
 	   See Note below if ./configure script is not present.
 
 	2) make
@@ -31,7 +34,7 @@ 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 +42,7 @@ files and proceed as stated below.
 
 You will also probably need GNU m4 (perhaps installed as gm4).
 
+
 Requirements
 ------------
 
@@ -49,10 +53,10 @@ 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 4.2/3/4.x. 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.
+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
@@ -249,10 +253,10 @@ The following options allow to tweak more precisely the generated code:
     want to use. The default value is qt4, which is the only available
     frontend for now.
 
-  o --enable-monolithic-[boost,client,insets,mathed,core,tex2lyx,frontend-qt4]
-    that enable monolithic build of the given part of the source code. This
-    should reduce the compilation time provided you have enough memory
-    (>500MB).
+  o --enable-monolithic-build[=boost,client,insets,mathed,core,tex2lyx,frontend-qt4]
+    that enables monolithic build of the given parts of the source
+    code. This should reduce the compilation time provided you have
+    enough memory (>500MB).
 
 
 Compiling and installing LyX