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diff --git a/doc/manual/installation.xml b/doc/manual/installation.xml
index 39f6654ef..1f45404e9 100644
--- a/doc/manual/installation.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/installation.xml
@@ -46,25 +46,42 @@ $ svn checkout https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/nix/trunk nix</screen>
</para>
<para>
- To rebuild this manual and the man-pages you need the
- <command>xmllint</command> and <command>xsltproc</command>, which are
- part of the <literal>libxml2</literal> and <literal>libxslt</literal>
- packages, respectively. You also need the <ulink
- url='http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/xsl/'>DocBook XSL
- stylesheets</ulink> and optionally the <ulink
- url='http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbook-xml-4.2.zip'>
- DocBook XML 4.2 DTD</ulink>. Note that these are only required if you
- modify the manual sources or when you are building from the Subversion
- repository.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Nix uses Sleepycat's Berkeley DB, CWI's ATerm library, and SDF parser
- library. These are included in the Nix source distribution. If you
- build from the Subversion repository, you must download them yourself and
- place them in the <filename>externals/</filename> directory. See
- <filename>externals/Makefile.am</filename> for the precise URLs of these
- packages.
+ To build this manual and the man-pages you need the
+ <command>xmllint</command> and <command>xsltproc</command>
+ programs, which are part of the <literal>libxml2</literal> and
+ <literal>libxslt</literal> packages, respectively. You also
+ need the <ulink
+ url='http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/xsl/'>DocBook XSL
+ stylesheets</ulink> and optionally the <ulink
+ url='http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbook-xml-4.2.zip'>
+ DocBook XML 4.2 DTD</ulink>. 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
+ of Bison and Flex are required. (This is because Nix needs GLR
+ support in Bison and reentrancy support in Flex.) For Bison,
+ you need version 1.875c or higher (1.875 does
+ <emphasis>not</emphasis> work), which can be obtained from the
+ <ulink url='ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison'>GNU FTP
+ server</ulink>. For Flex, you need version 2.5.31, which is
+ available on <ulink
+ url='http://lex.sourceforge.net/'>SourceForge</ulink>. Slightly
+ older versions may also work, but ancient versions like the
+ ubiquitous 2.5.4a won't. Note that these are only required if
+ you modify the parser or when you are building from the
+ Subversion repository.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Nix uses Sleepycat's Berkeley DB and CWI's ATerm library. These
+ are included in the Nix source distribution. If you build from
+ the Subversion repository, you must download them yourself and
+ place them in the <filename>externals/</filename> directory.
+ See <filename>externals/Makefile.am</filename> for the precise
+ URLs of these packages.
</para>
</sect1>
diff --git a/doc/manual/overview.xml b/doc/manual/overview.xml
index 5525f4bc0..a5bcccd34 100644
--- a/doc/manual/overview.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/overview.xml
@@ -174,8 +174,8 @@ $ nix-env -if pkgs/system/i686-linux.nix pan</screen>
<screen>
$ nix-pull
-http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/nix/nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable>/
-obtaining list of Nix archives at http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/nix/nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable>...
+http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable>/
+obtaining list of Nix archives at http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable>...
...</screen>
<para>