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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
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--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -363,16 +363,18 @@ su - postgres
<title>Getting The Source</title>
<para>
- The <productname>PostgreSQL</> &version; sources can be obtained by
- anonymous FTP from <ulink
- url="ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v&version;/postgresql-&version;.tar.gz"></ulink>.
- Other download options can be found on our website:
- <ulink url="http://www.postgresql.org/download/"></ulink>. After you
- have obtained the file, unpack it:
+ The <productname>PostgreSQL</> &version; sources can be obtained from the
+ download section of our
+ website: <ulink url="http://www.postgresql.org/download/"></ulink>. You
+ should get a file named <filename>postgresql-&version;.tar.gz</filename>
+ or <filename>postgresql-&version;.tar.bz2</filename>. After
+ you have obtained the file, unpack it:
<screen>
<userinput>gunzip postgresql-&version;.tar.gz</userinput>
<userinput>tar xf postgresql-&version;.tar</userinput>
</screen>
+ (Use <command>bunzip2</command> instead of <command>gunzip</command> if you
+ have the <filename>.bz2</filename> file.)
This will create a directory
<filename>postgresql-&version;</filename> under the current directory
with the <productname>PostgreSQL</> sources.