diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 1cd974268..4d2334e2f 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Common
 
-  First things first: Supybot *requires* at least Python 2.4.  There
+  First things first: Supybot *requires* at least Python 2.6.  There
 ain't no getting around it.  You can get it from http://www.python.org/.
 
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