diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a5021c60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+include README.rst
+include LICENSE
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 187f98f5..6db8cf38 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
-.. MongoEngine documentation master file, created by
-   sphinx-quickstart on Sun Nov 22 18:14:13 2009.
-   You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
-   contain the root `toctree` directive.
-
 MongoEngine User Documentation
 =======================================
 
 MongoEngine is an Object-Document Mapper, written in Python for working with 
-MongoDB. The source is available on 
-`GitHub <http://github.com/hmarr/mongoengine>`_.
+MongoDB. To install it, simply run
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+    # easy_install mongoengine
+
+The source is available on `GitHub <http://github.com/hmarr/mongoengine>`_.
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
diff --git a/docs/userguide.rst b/docs/userguide.rst
index 296816e0..294a0de0 100644
--- a/docs/userguide.rst
+++ b/docs/userguide.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,22 @@ User Guide
 
 .. _guide-connecting:
 
+Installing
+==========
+MongoEngine is available on PyPI, so to use it you can use 
+:program:`easy_install`
+    
+.. code-block:: console
+
+    # easy_install mongoengine
+
+Alternatively, if you don't have setuptools installed, `download it from PyPi 
+<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mongoengine/>`_ and run
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+    # python setup.py install
+
 Connecting to MongoDB
 =====================
 To connect to a running instance of :program:`mongod`, use the
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+from setuptools import setup
+
+VERSION = '0.1'
+
+DESCRIPTION = "A Python Document-Object Mapper for working with MongoDB"
+
+LONG_DESCRIPTION = None
+try:
+    LONG_DESCRIPTION = open('README.rst').read()
+except:
+    pass
+
+CLASSIFIERS = [
+    'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
+    'Intended Audience :: Developers',
+    'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
+    'Operating System :: OS Independent',
+    'Programming Language :: Python',
+    'Topic :: Database',
+    'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
+]
+
+setup(name='mongoengine',
+      version=VERSION,
+      packages=['mongoengine'],
+      author='Harry Marr',
+      author_email='harry.marr@{nospam}gmail.com',
+      url='http://hmarr.com/mongoengine/',
+      license='MIT',
+      description=DESCRIPTION,
+      long_description=LONG_DESCRIPTION,
+      platforms=['any'],
+      classifiers=CLASSIFIERS,
+      install_requires=['pymongo'],
+)