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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 3b6408caed..23f8032801 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,39 +1,51 @@
-INSTALL file for vlc, the VideoLAN Client
+$Id$
 
+INSTALL file for the VLC media player
 
-Configuring VideoLAN
-====================
+More extensive information for *nix, Windows, Mac OS X and BeOS users can be found here: 
+http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/
 
-A typical way to configure vlc is:
+Bootstrapping VLC
+=================
+
+If you retrieved VLC from the SVN server and do not have a "configure"
+script, please refer to the HACKING file.
+
+Configuring VLC
+===============
 
-   ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gnome
+A typical way to configure VLC is:
+
+   ./configure --prefix=/usr
 
 See `./configure --help' for more information.
 
 If you intend to debug stuff, you may want to compile with debugging
 symbols:
 
-   make distclean ; ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gnome --enable-debug
+   make distclean ; ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-debug
 
+We recommend using GCC to build VLC, though some people reported success
+with the Intel C compiler (version 8) as well. GCC version 3.3 or higher is
+required. On older systems (e.g. FreeBSD 4.x, BeOS), please select a more
+recent version manually by setting the CC and CXX environment variables
+appropriately while running the ./configure shell script.
 
-Building VideoLAN
-=================
 
-Have a look at the generated Makefile.opts file, you may want to choose
-which modules will be compiled as plugins, and which ones will remain in
-the core application. The configure script tries to guess for you.
+Building VLC
+============
 
-Once configured, run `make' to build vlc.
+Once configured, run `make' to build VLC.
 
 
-Installing and running VideoLAN
-===============================
+Installing and running VLC
+==========================
 
-You can install the vlc and its plugins by typing:
+You can install the VLC and its plugins by typing:
 
    make install
 
-But you don't need to install it if you don't want to; vlc can be launched
+But you don't need to install it if you don't want to; VLC can be launched
 from the current directory as well:
 
    ./vlc
@@ -42,8 +54,9 @@ from the current directory as well:
 Building packages
 =================
 
-To build a Debian package, you may use:
-
+To build a Debian package, you need to get the packaging info
+   svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/videolan/vlc/debian debian 
+and then
    dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc