diff --git a/configure b/configure
index cd4a30e2..7180e5e7 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -112,6 +112,10 @@ line:
 
 	sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.4-dev libtalloc-dev
 
+Or on Fedora or other RPM-based systems:
+
+	sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel
+
 On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of the 
 package names may be different, (such as "devel" in place of "dev").
 
@@ -125,6 +129,9 @@ to install pkg-config with a command such as:
 
 	sudo apt-get install pkg-config
 
+Or:
+	sudo yum install pkgconfig
+
 But if pkg-config is not available for your system, then you will need
 to modify the configure script to manually set the cflags and ldflags
 variables to the correct values to link against each library in each