installation.md

-Glance requires a Unix-like system such as Linux or Mac OSX.
+Glance requires a Unix-like system such as Linux or Mac OSX and python 2.7.
 
 <h2>Setting up the Environment for Glance</h2>
 
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ The currently release version of Glance requires the following:
 *  scipy
 *  mako (version 0.4.1 or newer)
 
-Some of these libraries will have additional requirements as well.
+You will also need to install the appropriate python modules to load the sorts of files you want Glance to analyze. Some of these libraries may have additional requirements.
 
 <h3>Installing Glance Using Anaconda</h3>
 
@@ -22,18 +22,21 @@ You will need to have the python 2.7 version of Anaconda installed for these ins
 
 On SSEC servers you use this command to load a pre-installed version of Anaconda:
 
-module load anaconda27
+~~~~module load anaconda27~~~~
 
 Once you have Anaconda installed, run the following commands on the command line:
 
-*  conda create -n glance python=2.7 anaconda
-*  source activate glance
-*  conda install basemap netcdf4 h5py pyqt=4.11.4 mock scipy pillow
-*  conda install -c http://sips.ssec.wisc.edu/conda python-hdf4     
+~~~~
+conda create -n glance python=2.7 anaconda
+source activate glance
+conda install basemap netcdf4 h5py pyqt=4.11.4 mock scipy pillow
+conda install -c http://sips.ssec.wisc.edu/conda python-hdf4     
     # on Mac OSX, you may need to use "conda install -c NSIDC python-hdf4" instead
-*  python -m easy_install -U -vi http://larch.ssec.wisc.edu/eggs/repos uwglance
+python -m easy_install -U -vi http://larch.ssec.wisc.edu/eggs/repos uwglance
+~~~~
 
 This will create an Anaconda environment called "glance" that can be used to run Glance at the command line. When you open a new terminal session with your computer to use glance you will need to activate this environment using the command:
 
+~~~~
 source activate glance
-
+~~~~