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@@ -20,8 +20,13 @@ Guix is based on the [[http://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]] package manager.
 
 GNU Guix currently depends on the following packages:
 
-  - [[http://gnu.org/software/guile/][GNU Guile 2.0.x]]
+  - [[http://gnu.org/software/guile/][GNU Guile 2.0.x]], version 2.0.7 or later
   - [[http://gnupg.org/][GNU libgcrypt]]
+  - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/make/][GNU Make]]
+  - optionally [[http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/guile-json/][Guile-JSON]], for the 'guix import pypi' command
+  - optionally [[http://www.gnutls.org][GnuTLS]] compiled with guile support enabled, for HTTPS support
+    in the 'guix download' command.  Note that 'guix import pypi' requires
+    this functionality.
 
 Unless `--disable-daemon' was passed, the following packages are needed:
 
@@ -33,29 +38,38 @@ When `--disable-daemon' was passed, you instead need the following:
 
   - [[http://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]]
 
-Optionally, packages from Nixpkgs may be transparently reused from Guix.
-For this to work, you need to have a checkout of the Nixpkgs repository;
-the `--with-nixpkgs' option allows you to let `configure' know where the
-Nixpkgs checkout is.
+* Installation
 
-  - [[http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/][Nixpkgs]]
+See the manual for the installation instructions, either by running
 
-When building Guix from a checkout, the following packages are also
-required:
+  info -f doc/guix.info "(guix) Installation"
 
-  - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/][GNU Autoconf]]
-  - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/][GNU Automake]]
-  - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/][GNU Gettext]]
+or by checking the [[http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Installation][web copy of the manual]].
 
-The "autoreconf -vi" command can be used to generate the build system
-infrastructure; it reports an error if an inappropriate version of the
-above packages is being used.
+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:
+
+  - Start a shell with the development environment for Guix:
+
+      guix environment guix
+
+  - 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!).
+
+  - Run "make", "make check", and "make install".
 
 * How It Works
 
 Guix does the high-level preparation of a /derivation/.  A derivation is
 the promise of a build; it is stored as a text file under
-=/nix/store/xxx.drv=.  The (guix derivations) module provides the
+=/gnu/store/xxx.drv=.  The (guix derivations) module provides the
 `derivation' primitive, as well as higher-level wrappers such as
 `build-expression->derivation'.