diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 45336653..13154a80 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 ################ INSTALL
 
-Short installation instructions for astGUIclient 2.0 tree will go here
+Short installation instructions for astGUIclient 2.0 tree will go here.
+
+run the install.pl script from this directory:
+perl install.pl
+
diff --git a/bin/install.pl b/install.pl
similarity index 100%
rename from bin/install.pl
rename to install.pl