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* Manual updates, some style improvements.

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<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>