diff --git a/doc/install.mdwn b/doc/install.mdwn
index 82fd299e3..7b768a61e 100644
--- a/doc/install.mdwn
+++ b/doc/install.mdwn
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ documentation for details.
 
 If you want to install by hand from the tarball, you should make sure that
 all the perl modules are installed. This is one way to install them, using
-CPAN:
+CPAN to install modules from your local machine after you extract the ikiwiki tarball:
 
 	PERL5LIB=`pwd` PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")'
 	PERL5LIB=`pwd` PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")'