diff --git a/wxPython/docs/BUILD.txt b/wxPython/docs/BUILD.txt
index a3e0fb61fc..1b59bc8a69 100644
--- a/wxPython/docs/BUILD.txt
+++ b/wxPython/docs/BUILD.txt
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ place, then do the same for wxPython.
    GTK2.  If you built wxWidgets to use GTK 1.2.x then you should add
    this flag to the command-line::
 
-	 WXPORT=gtk2 
+	 WXPORT=gtk 
 
    If you would like to do a Unicode enabled build (all strings sent
    to or retruned from wx functions are Unicode objects) and your
diff --git a/wxPython/docs/INSTALL.txt b/wxPython/docs/INSTALL.txt
index 7029779694..c8c16923e4 100644
--- a/wxPython/docs/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/wxPython/docs/INSTALL.txt
@@ -66,9 +66,11 @@ Installing on Unix-like Systems (not OS X)
 
 4. In addition to building wxPython as described in BUILD.txt, you can
    install it to Python's site-packages dir, as well as some scripts
-   into the same bin dir used by Python by using this command::
+   into the same bin dir used by Python by using this command, plus
+   whatever WXPORT, UNICODE, etc. settings you used for the initial
+   build step::
 
-	python2.3 setup.py install
+	python2.3 setup.py install 
 
    If you would like to install to some place besides the prefix where
    Python is installed, (such as to your home directory) then you can