diff --git a/COMPILE.txt b/COMPILE.txt
index 4f7f5367c..6de0bf551 100644
--- a/COMPILE.txt
+++ b/COMPILE.txt
@@ -369,6 +369,12 @@ LINUX
       liblcms2-dev libpng-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev libtiff-dev mercurial \
       zlib1g-dev
 
+    in Fedora, run:
+      sudo yum install gcc-c++ cmake bzip2-devel exiv2-devel expat-devel \
+      fftw-devel glib2-devel glibmm24-devel gtk+-devel gtkmm24-devel \
+      libjpeg-turbo-devel lcms2-devel libiptcdata-devel libpng-devel \
+      libsigc++20-devel libtiff-devel zlib-devel
+
     In Gentoo, run:
       sudo emerge -uva app-arch/bzip2 media-gfx/exiv2 dev-libs/expat \
       dev-libs/glib dev-cpp/glibmm x11-libs/gtk+ dev-cpp/gtkmm \