diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 15b3b546d5..38f7298747 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -25,6 +25,20 @@ License
 
 This project is open sourced under `Apache 2.0 License`_.
 
+Installation
+------------
+
+    $ virtualenv venv
+    $ source venv/bin/activate
+    $ pip install mayan-edms==1.0.rc1
+
+Instead of using the usual ./manage.py use the alias mayan-edms.py
+
+    $ mayan-edms.py syncdb --migrate --noinput
+    $ mayan-edms.py runserver
+
+Point your browsers to 127.0.0.1:8000 and use the automatically created admin
+account.
 
 Contribute
 ----------