diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0c5d12ce2d..330758723c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-07-03  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
+
+	* INSTALL: mention the fact that intltool now needs to be
+	installed in order to build from tarball.
+
+	* HACKING: removed mentioning of intltoolize here.
+
 2008-07-02  Jakub Steiner <jimmac@ximian.com>
 
 	* themes/Default/images/stock-gegl-16.png
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index ea71fcb912..443be4f1f0 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -16,9 +16,6 @@ Beta software can be found at alpha.gnu.org.
     * pkg-config 0.16.0 (or preferably a newer version)
         - http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
 
-    * intltoolize 0.35.5 (or preferably a newer version)
-        - ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/intltool/
-
     * gtkdocize
         - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk-doc/
 
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 6b59f5e87a..c443165c52 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -28,18 +28,22 @@ header files installed.
   1. You need to have installed a recent version of pkg-config available
      from http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/.  
 
-  2. You need to have GEGL version 0.0.18 or newer and babl version
+  2. You need intltool (at least 0.35.5, but preferably a newer version).
+     Intltool can be downloaded from
+     http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/intltool/  
+
+  3. You need to have GEGL version 0.0.18 or newer and babl version
      0.0.22 or newer. You can get it from http://gegl.org/ or check
      it out from the subversion repository:
 
        http://svn.gnome.org/svn/babl/trunk
        http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gegl/trunk
 
-  3. You need to have installed GTK+ version 2.12.1 or newer.  GIMP
+  4. You need to have installed GTK+ version 2.12.1 or newer.  GIMP
      also need a recent versions of GLib (>= 2.16.1) and Pango (>= 1.18.0).
      Sources for these can be grabbed from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/.
 
-  4. We require PangoFT2, a Pango backend that uses FreeType2. Make
+  5. We require PangoFT2, a Pango backend that uses FreeType2. Make
      sure you have FreeType2 and fontconfig installed before you
      compile Pango.  FreeType2 can be downloaded from
      http://www.freetype.org/.  Fontconfig from
@@ -48,28 +52,28 @@ header files installed.
      Older versions are known to have bugs that seriously affect the
      stability of GIMP.
 
-  5. We use cairo, which is hosted at http://www.cairographics.org/.
+  6. We use cairo, which is hosted at http://www.cairographics.org/.
 
-  6. We use dbus-glib if available. Grab it from
+  7. We use dbus-glib if available. Grab it from
      http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-glib/
 
-  7. You may want to install other third party libraries or programs
+  8. You may want to install other third party libraries or programs
      that are needed for some of the available plugins. We recommend
      to check that the following libraries are installed: libpng,
      libjpeg, libpoppler, libtiff, webkit, libmng, librsvg, libwmf.
 
-  8. The Python extension requires Python development headers to be
+  9. The Python extension requires Python development headers to be
      present. You will also need PyGTK and the respective development
      headers.
 
-  9. Configure GIMP by running the `configure' script. You may want
+ 10. Configure GIMP by running the `configure' script. You may want
      to pass some options to it, see below.
 
- 10. Build GIMP by running `make'. The use of GNU make is recommended.
+ 11. Build GIMP by running `make'. The use of GNU make is recommended.
      If you need to tweak the build to make it work with other flavours
      of make, we'd appreciate if you'd send us a patch with the changes.
 
- 11. Install GIMP by running `make install'. In order to avoid clashes
+ 12. Install GIMP by running `make install'. In order to avoid clashes
      with other versions of GIMP, we install a binary called gimp-2.5.
      By default there's also a link created so that you can type 'gimp'
      to start gimp-2.5.