diff --git a/README b/README
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--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Lumiera -- the video NLE for Linux
  Lumiera is a nonlinear video editing and compositing tool. 
  It understands some of the common multimedia formats
  (quicktime, avi, ogg) and audio/video compression
- codecs (divx, xvid, mpeg1/2/4, ...)
- .
+ codecs (divx, xvid, mpeg1/2/4, ...).
+
  It features non-destructive editing, compositing tools,
  a selection of effects plugins, processing in RGB, YUV
  and RGB-float colormodels and the ability to mix media
@@ -29,16 +29,17 @@ together with some unit tests. You should find a wiki with detailed
 design considerations and developer documentation and a UML model
 (usable with BOUML 2.29) in the sibling directories.
 
-As of 2/2008 the project has been separated completely from his ancestor "Cinelerra"
-The Community, which is largely identical to the Cinelerra-CV community, choose the
-new project name "Lumiera". The basic project infrastructure is up and running,
-and work on the new codebase is going on continuosely. We can show nothing but
-a running test suite for now. 
+As of 2/2008 the project has been separated completely from its
+ancestor "Cinelerra". The Community, which is largely identical to the
+Cinelerra-CV community, chose the new project name "Lumiera". The
+basic project infrastructure is up and running, and work on the new
+codebase is going on continuously. We can show nothing but a running
+test suite for now.
 
 
 
-Build Requirements
-------------------
-
-*to be written*
+----------------------------
+Installation
+----------------------------
 
+See INSTALL file