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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 547718c464..4c55efd0ac 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,32 +1,44 @@
-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.25 2003/03/19 15:44:44 hartman Exp $
-
 INSTALL file for the VLC media player
+=====================================
+
+More extensive information for *nix, Windows and Mac OS X users can be
+found here: http://wiki.videolan.org/Compile_VLC
+
+People installing VLC for Windows from source MUST read:
+http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile
+
+Bootstrapping VLC
+=================
 
-Mac OS X and BeOS users should read the documentation available at: 
-http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/
+If you retrieved VLC from the git server and do not have yet a "configure"
+script, please run:
+
+    ./bootstrap
 
 Configuring VLC
 ===============
 
 A typical way to configure VLC is:
 
-   ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gnome
+   ./configure
 
 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 --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), please select a more recent
+version manually by setting the CC and CXX environment variables
+appropriately while running the ./configure shell script.
 
 
 Building VLC
 ============
 
-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.
-
 Once configured, run `make' to build VLC.
 
 
@@ -46,12 +58,13 @@ from the current directory as well:
 Building packages
 =================
 
-To build a Debian package, you may use:
-
-   dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
+To build a Debian package, you need to get the packaging info
+   git clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/vlc.git debian
+and then
+   git-buildpackage
 
 
-To build RedHat packages, use:
+To build RPM packages, copy a spec file from extra/package/rpm and:
 
    rpm -ba vlc.spec