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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/installation/installing-binary.xml22
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml4
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/installation/installing-binary.xml b/doc/manual/installation/installing-binary.xml
index f9ee98c726d2..e9a09cba7030 100644
--- a/doc/manual/installation/installing-binary.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/installation/installing-binary.xml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ $ chown alice /nix
 
 </para>
 
+<!--
 <para>You can also manually download and install a binary package.
 Binary packages of the latest stable release are available for Fedora,
 Debian, Ubuntu, Mac OS X and various other systems from the <link
@@ -53,12 +54,12 @@ $ dpkg -i nix_1.8-1_amd64.deb</screen>
 
 </para>
 
-<para>For other platforms, including Mac OS X and other Linux
-distributions, you can download a binary tarball that contains Nix and
-all its dependencies.  (This is what the install script at
-<uri>https://nixos.org/nix/install</uri> uses.)  You should unpack it
-somewhere (e.g. in <filename>/tmp</filename>), and then run the script
-named <command>install</command> inside the binary tarball:
+<para>You can also download a binary tarball that contains Nix and all
+its dependencies.  (This is what the install script at
+<uri>https://nixos.org/nix/install</uri> does automatically.)  You
+should unpack it somewhere (e.g. in <filename>/tmp</filename>), and
+then run the script named <command>install</command> inside the binary
+tarball:
 
 <screen>
 alice$ cd /tmp
@@ -78,5 +79,14 @@ other auxiliary data, if desired:
 $ rm -rf /nix</screen>
 
 </para>
+-->
+
+<para>You can uninstall Nix simply by running:
+
+<screen>
+$ rm -rf /nix
+</screen>
+
+</para>
 
 </chapter>
diff --git a/doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml b/doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml
index 47adc9a4fd67..01d52c74030a 100644
--- a/doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   or higher.  If your distribution does not provide it, please install
   it from <link xlink:href="http://www.sqlite.org/" />.</para></listitem>
 
-  <listitem><para>The Perl DBI and DBD::SQLite libraries, which are
+  <listitem><para>The Perl DBI, DBD::SQLite, and WWW::Curl libraries, which are
   available from <link
   xlink:href="http://search.cpan.org/">CPAN</link> if your
   distribution does not provide them.</para></listitem>
@@ -70,4 +70,4 @@
 
 </itemizedlist>
 
-</section>
\ No newline at end of file
+</section>