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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 2da32b7c53..6a4bd0fbbb 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ 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. 
+           qt and qt-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX.
 
 	1) ./configure
 	   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 
+           version. You may have to set
            --with-qt-dir=<path-to-your-qt-installation> to succeed.
 
 	2) make
@@ -84,9 +84,11 @@ 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-ttf-fonts package (available on ftp://ftp.lyx.org/) to get maths
-symbols displayed properly. To find out, type:
+latex-xft-fonts package (at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/) to get
+maths symbols displayed properly. To find out, type:
+
 	ldd `which lyx` | grep fontconfig
+
 at the console. Both RH8 and Debian unstable distributions are known
 to use fontconfig.
 
@@ -167,7 +169,7 @@ flags:
 
     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 : 
+    own, by doing something like :
        ./configure --with-version-suffix=-latestcvs
 
     Note that the standard configure options --program-prefix,
@@ -223,9 +225,10 @@ Moreover, the following generic configure flags may be useful:
   o --mandir=DIRECTORY gives the directory where the man pages will go.
     [defaults to ${prefix}/man]
 
-  o --enable-mainainer-mode enables some code that automatically
+  o --enable-maintainer-mode enables some code that automatically
     rebuilds the configure script, makefiles templates and other useful
-    files when needed. This is off by default, to avoid surprises.
+    files when needed. This is off by default on releases, to avoid
+    surprises.
 
 Note that the --with-extra-* commands are not really robust when it
 comes to use of relative paths.  If you really want to use a relative path
@@ -364,8 +367,11 @@ notify us.
     then you need to upgrade the version of the xforms library you have
     installed.
 
-  o On solaris 2.6, you may have to compile with --with-included-string
-    if compiling with gcc 2.95.2.
+  o On SUN Sparc Solaris 8, you need gnumake. The LyX makefiles do not
+    work with Solaris make.
+
+    The Solaris ar seg-faults trying to build the insets library. You
+    will need to use the ar from the GNU binutils for this subdirectory.
 
   o LyX can be compiled on Tru64 Unix with either GNU's gcc or the default
     Compaq cxx compiler.