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@@ -18,27 +18,12 @@ Guix is based on the [[https://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]] package manager.
 
 * Requirements
 
-GNU Guix currently depends on the following packages:
+If you are building Guix from source, please see the manual for build
+instructions and requirements, either by running:
 
-  - [[https://gnu.org/software/guile/][GNU Guile 2.2.x]]
-  - [[https://notabug.org/cwebber/guile-gcrypt][Guile-Gcrypt]] 0.1.0 or later
-  - [[https://www.gnu.org/software/make/][GNU Make]]
-  - [[https://www.gnutls.org][GnuTLS]] compiled with guile support enabled
-  - [[https://notabug.org/guile-sqlite3/guile-sqlite3][Guile-SQLite3]], version 0.1.0 or later
-  - [[https://gitlab.com/guile-git/guile-git][Guile-Git]]
-  - [[http://www.zlib.net/][zlib]]
-  - [[https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/guile-json/][Guile-JSON]]
+  info -f doc/guix.info "Requirements"
 
-Unless `--disable-daemon' was passed, the following packages are needed:
-
-  - [[https://gnupg.org/][GNU libgcrypt]]
-  - [[https://sqlite.org/][SQLite 3]]
-  - [[https://gcc.gnu.org][GCC's g++]]
-  - optionally [[http://www.bzip.org][libbz2]]
-
-When `--disable-daemon' was passed, you instead need the following:
-
-  - [[https://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]]
+or by checking the [[https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Requirements.html][web copy of the manual]].
 
 * Installation
 
@@ -46,26 +31,16 @@ See the manual for the installation instructions, either by running
 
   info -f doc/guix.info "Installation"
 
-or by checking the [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Installation][web copy of the manual]].
-
-For information on installation from a Git checkout, please see the section
-"Building from Git" in the manual.
-
-* Installing Guix from Guix
-
-You can re-build and re-install Guix using a system that already runs Guix.
-To do so:
+or by checking the [[https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Installation.html][web copy of the manual]].
 
-  - Start a shell with the development environment for Guix:
+* Building from Git
 
-      guix environment guix
+For information on building Guix from a Git checkout, please see the relevant
+section in the manual, either by running
 
-  - Re-run the 'configure' script passing it the option
-    '--localstatedir=/somewhere', where '/somewhere' is the 'localstatedir'
-    value of the currently installed Guix (failing to do that would lead the
-    new Guix to consider the store to be empty!).
+  info -f doc/guix.info "Building from Git"
 
-  - Run "make", "make check", and "make install".
+or by checking the [[https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html][web_copy of the manual]].
 
 * How It Works
 
@@ -87,7 +62,7 @@ Please email <help-guix@gnu.org> for questions and <bug-guix@gnu.org> for bug
 reports; email <gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org> for general issues regarding the
 GNU system.
 
-Join #guix on irc.freenode.net.
+Join #guix on irc.libera.chat.
 
 * Guix & Nix