diff --git a/install_wfm_stitching.py b/install_wfm_stitching.py
index a6b6743e8da2e7481f2fefe60df6c3b77f40e185..b187fac0e2c336efbdf6d52ea8987c545ee1bce3 100644
--- a/install_wfm_stitching.py
+++ b/install_wfm_stitching.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ You can install from the command line using the lauch_mantid_plot executable wit
 (execute and quit) option set, you can also pass a version to installation script, if not
 provided it will fetch the latest wfm_stitching package.
 
-Example:
+Example on windows:
 
 C:\\MantidInstall\\bin\\launch_mantidplot -x install_wfm_stitching.py
 
@@ -23,22 +23,46 @@ import subprocess
 from argparse import ArgumentParser
 import os
 import sys
+import re
 
-def do_wfm_stitching_install(python, required_version):
-    url = 'git+http://git.esss.dk/wedel/wfm_stitching.git'
+def extract_upload_url(python, required_version=None):
+    """ From gitlab project releases fetch the download url for the release matching the tag
+    """
+    try: 
+        import gitlab
+    except ImportError:
+        subprocess.check_call([python, '-m', 'pip', 'install', '--upgrade', '--user', 'python-gitlab'])
+        import gitlab
+        
+    gl = gitlab.Gitlab('https://git.esss.dk')
+    project = gl.projects.list(search='wfm_stitching')[0]
     if required_version:
-        url = '{0}@{1}'.format(url, required_version)
-    subprocess.check_call([python, '-m' 'pip', 'install', '--user', '--upgrade', url])
+        tag = project.tags.get(required_version)
+    else:
+        # Get the latest tag
+        tag = project.tags.list(order_by='updated', sort='desc')[0]
+    description = tag.attributes['release']['description']
+    # Search for mark-down style upload in the form [link-text](upload-url) and extract upload-url
+    upload = re.search('\[.*\]\((.*)\)', description).group(1)
+    # Join with the project web url to obtain the full address
+    upload_url = project.attributes['web_url'] + upload
+    return upload_url
+
+
+def do_wfm_stitching_install(python, required_version):
+    url = extract_upload_url(python, required_version)
+    subprocess.check_call([python, '-m', 'pip', 'install', '--user', '--upgrade', url])
 
 def do_wfm_stitching_uninstall(python):
     """Convenience function to allow the removal of the wfm-stitching package"""
-    subprocess.check_call([python, '-m' 'pip', 'uninstall', '-y', 'wfm-stitching'])
+    subprocess.check_call([python, '-m', 'pip', 'uninstall', '-y', 'wfm_stitching'])
+    subprocess.check_call([python, '-m', 'pip', 'uninstall', '-y', 'python-gitlab'])
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     parser = ArgumentParser(description='Install WFM package http://git.esss.dk/wedel/wfm_sitching')
-    parser.add_argument('-v', '--version', default=None,
-                        help='optionally specify the version you wish to use i.e. v0.1.2.'
-                             'Defaults to latest version. Version must match git tag version.')
+    parser.add_argument('-v', '--version', default='v0.1.0',
+                        help='Specify the version you wish to use i.e. v0.1.2.'
+                             'Defaults to version v0.1.0. Version must match git tag version.')
     parser.add_argument('-u', '--uninstall', action='store_true', default=False,  help='uninstall any existing wfm-stitching package')
     args = parser.parse_args()
     interpreter = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.executable), 'python')
diff --git a/installation.md b/installation.md
index 042a42916439b90a4d096ab76f10cef197f6e5b7..af0ca29f509085b18ead4917acbf27b423150fbd 100644
--- a/installation.md
+++ b/installation.md
@@ -47,4 +47,12 @@ If this works without issue then, skip forward to the installation of wfm-stitch
 
 On OSX this would be done via `export PYTHONPATH=/Applications/MantidPlot.app/Contents/MacOS`, or on linux via `export PYTHONPATH=/opt/Mantid/bin`.  After doing this, recheck that the mantid modules are in the python path via `/usr/bin/python -c "import mantid"``, which should produce no error.
 
+### Astropy caveat and versioning 
+
+Astropy, the up-to-date pacakge for loading fits files, [does not install cleanly](http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/install.html) via pip without a c++ compiler. While we work around this issue, the default will be to install `v0.1.0` (see tags) of the WFM stitching package, which depends on the deprecated [pyfits](https://pythonhosted.org/pyfits/) package. Note that you will see this warning at present, but it should not cause alarm.
+
+```PyFITS is deprecated, please use astropy.io.fits PyFITSDeprecationWarning```
+
+ If you want to use astropy, instead and have a suitable environement to support it, you can install it by using `v0.1.2` of this package, which you can pass as a command line argument (`-v`) to the [installation script](https://git.esss.dk/wedel/wfm_stitching/raw/master/install_wfm_stitching.py). 
+