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@@ -37,11 +37,11 @@ To install Netpbm as a Debian package:
 PREREQUSISITES
 --------------
 
-The following information was taken from the Wheezy version (Version 7) of
-Debian, in January 2014.
+The following information was taken from the Jessie version (Version 8) of
+Debian, in March 2017.
 
 You don't actually need the current version of any of these.  For example,
-while we list package libjpeg8-dev, the package libjpeg62-dev works fine.
+while we list package libjpeg62-dev, the package libjpeg8-dev works fine.
 
 
 Building
@@ -54,12 +54,11 @@ indicate you don't have them, and the build will simply omit some parts.
 For example, if you don't install libx11-dev, the Netpbm build process
 will not build the 'pamx' program.
 
-  libjpeg8-dev
-  libpng12-0-dev
-  libsvga1-dev
+  libjpeg-dev
+  libpng-dev
   libtiff5-dev
   libx11-dev
-  libxml2a-dev
+  libxml2-dev
   zlib1g-dev
 
 
@@ -80,9 +79,9 @@ The following Debian packages are the known prerequisites for running Netpbm
 (and the package created by 'mkdeb' knows this).
 
     libc6
-    libjpeg8
+    libjpeg62 or libjpeg8
     libpng12-0
-    libsvga1
+    libsvga1 (available only on older systems)
     libtiff5
     libx11-6
     zlib1g