-On Debian-like systems (which includes ubuntu), you need the following
-packages: sun-java6-jdk libgcj10-dev. If you cannot find the
-libgcj10-dev, try another version, like libgcj9-dev (on Ubuntu before
-9.10) or libgcj11-dev (not released yet, but certainly one day).
-Please note that you need to activate the contrib and non-free
-repositories in Debian, and the universe ones in Ubuntu. Java comes at
-this price...
+
+
+Welcome to the SimGrid project!
+
+Up-to-date documentation about installation and how to use SimGrid is available
+online at http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/
+
+The documentation is also included in the archive you downloaded: Check
+doc/html/index.html for more information.
+
+In any case, you may want to subscribe to the user mailing list
+(http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/simgrid-user). There,
+you can find answers to your questions, or simply discuss with people
+doing the same kind of research than you do, in an active and friendly
+community.
+
+Thanks for downloading our software,
+
+Cheers,
+Da SimGrid Team.
