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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 1236d92e..a6c12c07 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,18 +1,21 @@
 Quick Installation
 ==================
 
-   To configure and compile SILC package give the comands:
+   To configure and compile SILC package give the commands:
 
 	./configure
-	make (or gmake, GNU make is required)
+	make (or gmake)
 	make install
 
    This will install the SILC binaries and configuration files into the
 /usr/local/silc/ directory.  System wide configuration files are installed
 into the /etc/silc/ directory.
 
-Some Configuration Options
-==========================
+You may need to add the /usr/local/silc path to your PATH environment
+variable after the installation.
+
+Configuration Options
+=====================
 
    You can give various options to the `configure' shell script.  You should
 give --help command to the `configure' to see all of them.  Here is listed
@@ -25,8 +28,11 @@ file for more generic installation instructions.
 library instead of using the MPI library included in the package, you can
 give the --with-gmp[=DIR] option to the `configure'.  The DIR is the upper
 path in your system which contains lib/ and include/ for GMP library.
+   Note that MPI is the prefered arbitrary precision arithmetic library and
+GMP can be used as a fall-back if you have problems with the MPI library
+included within this package.
 
-'--with-iconv[=DIR]'
+`--with-iconv[=DIR]'
 
    If your system doesn't provide iconv() function in its native libraries
 (usually libc) or if this function is broken (e.g. older Solaris systems),
@@ -46,6 +52,11 @@ package or does not want to use them, you can give the --disable-asm
 option to the `configure' script.  This will assure that assembler
 optimized code is not compiled in.
 
+`--enabled-shared'
+
+   If you wish to compile and install shared libraries then enable this
+option.  By default all libraries are compiled as static libraries.
+
 `--enable-debug'
 
    If you would like to enable the debugging for the compiled programs