diff --git a/doc/source/users_guide/CMakeLists.txt b/doc/source/users_guide/CMakeLists.txt
index 4450c63037..91cadd9b32 100644
--- a/doc/source/users_guide/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/doc/source/users_guide/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 set(SOURCES index.rst
+	        installing.rst
             using.rst
             files.rst
             groups.rst
diff --git a/doc/source/users_guide/index.rst b/doc/source/users_guide/index.rst
index 9edb62f27b..204f6cccdb 100644
--- a/doc/source/users_guide/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/users_guide/index.rst
@@ -2,13 +2,14 @@
 Users guide
 ===========
 
-This chapter will contain the userse guide for the C++ wrapper.
+This chapter will contain the users guide for the C++ wrapper.
 Still need to add a table of contents here.
 
 
 .. toctree:: 
    :maxdepth: 1
-   
+  
+   installing 
    using
    overview
    files
diff --git a/doc/source/users_guide/installing.rst b/doc/source/users_guide/installing.rst
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index 0000000000..8f54608a7c
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@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+======================
+Installing the library
+======================
+
+This chapter describes the installation of *h5cpp* from sources. 
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+In order to build the code you need 
+
+* a C++ compiler with reasonable C++11 support (gcc>=4.9,Micrsoft Developer Studio >= 2015)
+* the Boost libraries
+* the HDF5 C library
+* googletest to build the unit tests
+* sphinx (with python) and doxygen for the documentation build
+* cmake >= 3.0
+
+Getting the code
+----------------
+
+You can either obtain one of the release tar balls from the `release site`_ of the 
+project on GitHub or clone the master branch of the repository. 
+In the first case you get a source tree with 
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+	$ tar -xzf h5cpp-*.tar.gz
+	
+while in the latter you may want to use 
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+	$ git clone https://github.com/ess-dmsc/h5cpp.git
+	
+*h5cpp* uses :program:`CMake` to build the code in which case an out of 
+source build is recommended. 
+
+_release site: https://github.com/ess-dmsc/h5cpp/releases
+
+
+
+Building and testing 
+--------------------
+
+Installation
+------------
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