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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 9cf328ee..b543c508 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -18,20 +18,10 @@ will call configure for you). See this command:
 for detailed documentation of the things you can control at the
 configure stage.
 
-notmuch.el installation
------------------------
-Installing the notmuch.el emacs lisp function systemwide:
-
-	sudo make install-emacs
-
-Each user needs to add (require 'notmuch) in his ~/.emacs to make it
-available and then start emacs running notmuch with "emacs -f notmuch"
-or start notmuch from within emacs with "M-x notmuch".
-
 Dependencies
 ------------
-Notmuch depends on three libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4, and Talloc
-which are each described below:
+Notmuch depends on four libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4 or 2.6,
+Talloc, and zlib which are each described below:
 
 	Xapian
 	------
@@ -49,14 +39,14 @@ which are each described below:
 	reading mail while notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing
 	the "inbox" and "unread" tags from messages in a thread.
 
-	GMime 2.4
-	---------
-	GMime 2.4 provides decoding of MIME email messages for Notmuch.
+	GMime 2.4 or 2.6
+	----------------
+	GMime provides decoding of MIME email messages for Notmuch.
 
 	Without GMime, Notmuch would not be able to extract and index
 	the actual text from email message encoded as BASE64, etc.
 
-	GMime 2.4 is available from http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/
+	GMime is available from http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/
 
 	Talloc
 	------
@@ -70,16 +60,42 @@ which are each described below:
 
 	Talloc is available from http://talloc.samba.org/
 
+	zlib
+	----
+
+	zlib is an extremely popular compression library. It is used
+	by Xapian, so if you installed that you will already have
+	zlib. You may need to install the zlib headers separately.
+
+	Notmuch needs the transparent write feature of zlib introduced
+	in version 1.2.5.2 (Dec. 2011).
+
+	zlib is available from http://zlib.net
+
+Building Documentation
+----------------------
+
+By default the documentation for notmuch is built using sphinx.
+
+Sphinx is available from www.sphinx-doc.org.
+
+If you prefer, you can build the man pages using rst2man, from the
+python docutils package. See doc/INSTALL for details.
+
+
+Installing Dependencies from Packages
+-------------------------------------
+
 On a modern, package-based operating system you can install all of the
 dependencies with a simple simple command line. For example:
 
   For Debian and similar:
 
-        sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.4-dev libtalloc-dev
+        sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.6-dev libtalloc-dev zlib1g-dev python-sphinx
 
   For Fedora and similar:
 
-	sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel
+	sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel zlib-devel python-sphinx
 
 On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of
 the package names may be different.