diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 78ef0751..fa4e8103 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ First clone the repository, and move into that directory
 git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/compiler-research/xeus-cpp.git
 cd ./xeus-cpp
 ```
-The safest usage of xeus-cpp is to build and install it within a clean environment named `xeus-cpp`. You can create and activate this environment 
+The safest usage of xeus-cpp from source is to build and install it within a clean environment named `xeus-cpp`. You can create and activate this environment 
 with mamba by executing the following
 ```bash
 mamba create -n  "xeus-cpp"
diff --git a/docs/source/InstallationAndUsage.rst b/docs/source/InstallationAndUsage.rst
index 2a2912c3..fd26fce9 100644
--- a/docs/source/InstallationAndUsage.rst
+++ b/docs/source/InstallationAndUsage.rst
@@ -1,31 +1,54 @@
-InstallationAndUsage
+Installation And Usage
 --------------------
 
-You will first need to install dependencies.
+Installation from source
+========================
+
+To ensure that the installation works, it is preferable to install `xeus-cpp` in a
+fresh environment. It is also needed to use a miniforge or miniconda installation 
+because with the full Anaconda installation you may have a conflict with the `zeromq` 
+library which is already installed in the anaconda distribution. First clone the 
+repository, and move into that directory
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-    mamba install cmake cxx-compiler xeus-zmq nlohmann_json cppzmq xtl jupyterlab
-    clangdev=16 cpp-argparse pugixml -c conda-forge
+    git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/compiler-research/xeus-cpp.git
+    cd ./xeus-cpp
+
+The safest usage of xeus-cpp from source is to build and install it within a 
+clean environment named `xeus-cpp`. You can create and activate 
+this environment with mamba by executing the following
 
+.. code-block:: bash
 
-**Note:** Use a mamba environment with python version >= 3.11 for fetching clang-versions.
+    mamba create -n  "xeus-cpp"
+    source activate  "xeus-cpp"
 
-The safest usage is to create an environment named `xeus-cpp`.
+We will now install the dependencies needed to compile xeux-cpp from source within 
+this environment by executing the following
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-    mamba create -n  xeus-cpp
-    source activate  xeus-cpp
+    mamba install notebook cmake cxx-compiler xeus-zmq nlohmann_json=3.11.2 cppzmq 
+    xtl jupyterlab CppInterOp cpp-argparse<3.1 pugixml doctest -c conda-forge
 
-Installing from conda-forge:
-Then you can install in this environment `xeus-cpp` and its dependencies.
+Now you can compile the kernel from the source by executing (replace `$CONDA_PREFIX` 
+with a custom installation prefix if need be)
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-    mamba install xeus-cpp notebook -c conda-forge
-
     mkdir build && cd build
-    cmake .. -D CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$CONDA_PREFIX 
-    -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$CONDA_PREFIX -D CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib
-    make && make install
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+    cmake .. -D CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$CONDA_PREFIX -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$CONDA_PREFIX 
+    -D CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib
+    make && make install
+
+Installing from conda-forge
+===========================
+
+If you have conda installed then you can install xeus-cpp using the follwing command
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    conda install conda-forge::xeus-cpp
+
+Xeus-cpp is available for Linux, MacOS and Windows.
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