release: 1.3.120

[lilypond.git] / INSTALL.txt

diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
index 9a95ed6b0d5d048eda106932abccb3a2bb0569d5..0a2e54f06460eee339e5f2c4e400ce171b669031 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ Prerequisites
    * Although we recommend to use Unix, LilyPond is known to run on
      Windows NT/95/98 as well.  See Section Windows NT/95,es.
 
-   * EGCS 1.1 or newer. Check out `ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/'.
+   * A reasonable C++ compiler:  EGCS 1.1, GCC 2.95.2 or newer. Check
+     out `ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/'.
 
    * Python 1.5, Check out `ftp://ftp.python.org' or
      `ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/python'.
@@ -95,7 +96,8 @@ following software
      strongly     recommended.  Xdvi will show all embedded PostScript
      too if you have     Ghostscript installed.
 
-   * GUILE 1.3.4, check out http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
+   * GUILE 1.3.4, or newer.  Check out
+     http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
      (http://www.gnu.org/programs/guile.html)
 
    For running LilyPond successfully you have to help TeX and MetaFont
@@ -125,14 +127,13 @@ to be installed.
    If you want to auto-generate Lily's website, you'll need some
 additional conversion tools.
 
-   * xpmtoppm (from the Portable Bitmap Utilities) (For RedHat Linux
-      users: it is included within the package libgr-progs).
-     the original is at
+   * xpmtoppm (from the netpbm package: the Portable Bitmap Utilities)
+     (For RedHat Linux              users: it is included within the package
+     libgr-progs).     the original is at
      ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/netpbm-1mar1994.p1.tar.gz
      (ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/netpbm-1mar1994.p1.tar.gz)
 
-   * pnmtopng, which is also in libgr-progs for RedHat. The original is
-     at
+   * pnmtopng (also in libgr-progs for RedHat). The original is at
      ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/applications/pnmtopng-2.37.2.tar.gz
      (ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/applications/pnmtopng-2.37.2.tar.gz).i
 
@@ -140,14 +141,16 @@ additional conversion tools.
      5.2 contains a bug: pnmtopng is dynamically linked to the wrong
      version of libpng.
 
-   * Bib2html (http://pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu/~hull/bib2html).
-     Which, in turn depends on man2html for proper installation.
-     man2html can be had from
+   * Bibtex2html (http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/ftp/bibtex2html/), or
+     Bib2html (http://www.uni-koblenz.de/ag-ki/ftp/bib2html/).
+     Bibtex2html is available in debian, while bib2html is in some rpm
+     based distributions.  Bib2html, in turn depends on man2html for
+     proper installation.  man2html can be had from
      http://askdonald.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de/hppd/hpux/Networking/WWW/Man2html-1.05
      (http://askdonald.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de/hppd/hpux/Networking/WWW/Man2html-1.05).
 
-     The website will build without this utility, but you will not see
-     our hypertextified bibliography.
+     The website will build without bib converter utility, but you will
+     not see our hypertextified bibliography.
 
 
 Configuring and compiling
@@ -279,7 +282,7 @@ Redhat linux
        rpm -tb lilypond-x.y.z.tar.gz
        rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/lilypond-x.y.z
 
-   Precompiled i386 RedHat RPMS are available from
+   Precompiled RedHat-7.0 i386 RPMS are available from
 `ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/RedHat/'.
 
    For compilation on a RedHat system you need these packages, in