From 937dea42e72c982ab532a2b558f0540e5d5f4f67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 18:01:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] update install notes for CentOS

---
 INSTALL.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index 9da2e3c734..d25fcf0753 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ sudo yum install libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel libzip-devel freetype-devel \
 sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
 ```
 
+Note that Synapse does not support versions of SQLite before 3.11, and CentOS 7
+uses SQLite 3.7. You may be able to work around this by installing a more
+recent SQLite version, but it is recommended that you instead use a Postgres
+database: see [docs/postgres.md](docs/postgres.md).
+
 #### macOS
 
 Installing prerequisites on macOS: