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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index f5a826e6..c07faa27 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-PSPP Installation Instructions
-******************************
+Installation Instructions for GNU pspp
+**************************************
 
 These instructions are based on the generic GNU installation
 instructions, but they have been tailored for PSPP.
@@ -44,14 +44,30 @@ 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/). 
+    * 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 2.8.0 or later, although we
-      recommend version 2.10.2 or later.
+    * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.12.0 or later.
 
     * libglade (http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/libglade/), version
       2.6 or later.
 
+Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to read
+Gnumeric files.
+
+    * 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.
+
+    * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/).
+
+    * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).  
+
 The following packages are optional.
 
     * libncurses (http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/).  Without it,
@@ -66,6 +82,9 @@ The following packages are optional.
       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.
+
 Basic Installation
 ==================
 
@@ -187,6 +206,20 @@ Optional Features
     Build the gui developer tools.  There is no reason to use this
     option unless you're involved with the development of PSPP
 
+`--without-lib{xx}'
+    Optional libraries should normally be detected and the relevant
+    functionality will be built they exist.  However, on some poorly
+    configured systems a library may exist, but be totally broken.
+    In these cases you can use --without-lib{xx} to force configure
+    to disregard it.
+
+`--enable-anachronistic-dependencies'
+   If you use this option, some of the checks for dependent libraries
+   will be relaxed, permitting configure to succeed when older versions
+   of libraries are detected.   Use of this option is not recommended.
+   If you use it, some features may be missing and the build may fail
+   with obscure error messages.
+   
 
 Defining Variables
 ==================