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diff --git a/doc/manual/installation.xml b/doc/manual/installation.xml index 483c24e98715..ef056058d8dc 100644 --- a/doc/manual/installation.xml +++ b/doc/manual/installation.xml @@ -8,9 +8,10 @@ <section><info><title>Obtaining Nix</title></info> -<para>The easiest way to obtain Nix is to download a <link xlink:href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix">source -distribution</link>. RPMs for Red Hat, SuSE, and Fedore Core are -also available.</para> +<para>The easiest way to obtain Nix is to download a <link +xlink:href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix">source +distribution</link>. RPMs for Red Hat, SuSE, and Fedora Core are also +available.</para> <para>Alternatively, the most recent sources of Nix can be obtained from its <link @@ -34,8 +35,9 @@ tar-file</link> of the head revision of the trunk.</para> <section><info><title>Prerequisites</title></info> -<para>The following prerequisites only apply when you build from -source. Binary releases (e.g., RPMs) have no prerequisites.</para> +<para><emphasis>The following prerequisites only apply when you build +from source</emphasis>. Binary releases (e.g., RPMs) have no +prerequisites.</para> <para>A fairly recent version of GCC/G++ is required. Version 2.95 and higher should work.</para> @@ -47,9 +49,9 @@ which are part of the <literal>libxml2</literal> and <link xlink:href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/xsl/">DocBook XSL stylesheets</link> and optionally the <link -xlink:href="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbook-xml-4.2.zip"> -DocBook XML 4.2 DTD</link>. Note that these are only required if you -modify the manual sources or when you are building from the Subversion +xlink:href="http://www.docbook.org/schemas/5x"> DocBook 5.0 RELAX NG +schemas</link>. Note that these are only required if you modify the +manual sources or when you are building from the Subversion repository.</para> <para>To build the parser, very <emphasis>recent</emphasis> versions @@ -103,15 +105,15 @@ $ autoreconf -i</screen> like. You must have write permission to the <replaceable>prefix</replaceable> path.</para> -<warning><para>It is advisable <emphasis>not</emphasis> to change the -installation prefix from its default, since doing so will in all -likelihood make it impossible to use derivations built on other -systems.</para></warning> +<warning><para>It is best <emphasis>not</emphasis> to change the +installation prefix from its default, since doing so makes it +impossible to use pre-built binaries from the standard Nixpkgs +channels.</para></warning> <para>If you want to rebuilt the documentation, pass the full path to -the DocBook XML catalog file (<filename>docbook.cat</filename>) and to -the DocBook XSL stylesheets using the -<option>--with-docbook-catalog=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option> +the DocBook RELAX NG schemas and to the DocBook XSL stylesheets using +the +<option>--with-docbook-rng=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option> and <option>--with-docbook-xsl=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option> options.</para> |