installation-instructions.md

@@ -141,13 +141,43 @@ If you encounter an error installing graph-tool via Macports, please file a bug
 
 ### Anaconda
 
-It's possible to install graph-tool using [Anaconda](https://anaconda.org) for both GNU/Linux and MacOS, via [conda-forge](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/graph-tool). The packages are binary, so no compilation is necessary. Just type:
+It's possible to install graph-tool using [Anaconda](https://anaconda.org) for both GNU/Linux and MacOS, via [conda-forge](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/graph-tool). The packages are binary, so no compilation is necessary. This mode of installation is particularly useful when a system-wide installation is not possible due to lack of permissions, e.g. in HPC environments, since anaconda allows for unprivileged installations in a home directory.
+
+The easiest way to install `graph-tool` is to create a new environment and install it there:
+
+```
+conda create --name gt -c conda-forge graph-tool
+conda activate gt
+```
+
+After that, install additional packages to the environment as needed:
+
+```
+conda install -n gt -c conda-forge ipython jupyter
+```
+
+You can also install `graph-tool` to a pre-existing environment with the following command,
+but the solver is likely to fail (or hang) if your environment already contains many
+packages already, whose dependencies may conflict with the `graph-tool` dependencies.
+This is particularly likely if your environment contains packages from the official
+`Anaconda` distribution, rather than the `conda-forge` distribution.
 
 ```
 conda install -c conda-forge graph-tool
 ```
 
-This mode of installation is particularly useful when a system-wide installation is not possible due to lack of permissions, e.g. in HPC environments.
+Note: Rather than specifying `-c conda-forge` on every command, you can add `conda-forge` to your channels with:
+
+```
+conda config --add channels conda-forge
+```
+
+It is possible to list all of the versions of `graph-tool` available for your platform with:
+
+```
+conda search graph-tool --channel conda-forge
+```
+
 
 ### Windows