diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 45224fe4fa..b5e45530a1 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Requirements
 ------------
 
 First of all, you will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent
-means that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming (gcc 3.x).
+means that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming (gcc 4.x).
 
 LyX 1.6.x makes great use of C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
 This means that gcc users will have to install the relevant libstdc++