+These instructions are based on the generic GNU installation
+instructions, but they have been tailored for PSPP.
+
+Before You Install
+==================
+
+Before you install PSPP, you will need to install certain prerequisite
+packages. You may also want to install other packages that enable
+additional functionality in PSPP.
+
+If you do not know whether you have these installed already, you may
+proceed to "Basic Installation", below. The PSPP configuration
+process will notify you about required and optional packages that are
+not present on your system.
+
+The following packages are required to install PSPP:
+
+ * An ANSI C compiler and tool chain. On Unix-like systems, we
+ recommend GCC, but any modern compilation environment should
+ work. On Microsoft Windows, Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) and
+ MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/) are known to work.
+
+ * The GNU Scientific Library (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/),
+ version 1.8 or later, including libgslcblas included with GSL.
+
+ * Perl (http://www.perl.org/), version 5.005_03 or later. Perl is
+ required during build but not after installation.
+
+ * iconv, which should be installed as part of a Unix-like system.
+ If you don't have a version already, you can install GNU
+ libiconv (http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/).
+
+The following package is required to enable PSPP's graphing features.
+If you cannot arrange to install it, you must run `configure' with
+--without-libplot.
+
+ * libplot, from GNU plotutils
+ (http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/).
+
+The following packages are required to enable PSPPIRE, the graphical
+user interface for PSPP. If you cannot install them or do not wish to
+use the GUI, you must run `configure' with --without-gui.
+
+ * pkg-config (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/). Versions
+ 0.18 and 0.19 have a bug that will prevent library detection,
+ but other versions should be fine.
+
+ * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.12.0 or later.
+
+ * pkg-config (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/). Versions
+ 0.18 and 0.19 have a bug that will prevent library detection,
+ but other versions should be fine.
+
+To cross-compile PSPP, you will likely need to set the
+PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR environment variable to point to an
+appropriate pkg-config for the cross-compilation environment.
+
+Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to read
+Gnumeric files.
+
+ * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/).
+
+ * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).
+
+The following packages are optional.
+
+ * libncurses (http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/). Without it,
+ PSPP will assume it is running in an 80x25 terminal.
+
+ * libreadline and libhistory
+ (http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html). Without
+ them, interactive command editing and history features in the
+ text-based user interface will be disabled.
+
+ * Texinfo (http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/), version 4.7 or
+ later. Installing Texinfo will allow you to build PSPP
+ documentation in PostScript or PDF format.
+
+ * libpq, from Postgresql (http://postgresql.org). This enables PSPP
+ to read Postgresql databases.