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-Corba server for SceneViewer application.
+CORBA server/client for the Graphical Interface of Pinocchio and HPP
+====================================================================
+
+Setup
+-----
+
+To compile this package, it is recommended to create a separate build
+directory:
+
+    mkdir _build
+    cd _build
+    cmake [OPTIONS] ..
+    make install
+
+Please note that CMake produces a `CMakeCache.txt` file which should
+be deleted to reconfigure a package from scratch.
+
+
+### Dependencies
+
+The present software depends on several packages which
+have to be available on your machine.
+
+ - Libraries:
+   - omniORB4 (version >= 4.1.4)
+   - openscenegraph (version >= 3.2)
+   - eigen3 (version >= 3.0.5) (only for C++ client)
+   - urdfdom (version >= 0.3.0)
+   - SceneViewer (Graphical Interface of Pinocchio and HPP)
+ - System tools:
+   - CMake (>=2.6)
+   - pkg-config
+   - usual compilation tools (GCC/G++, make, etc.)
+ 
+### Install standalone urdfdom
+
+In order to read urdf files (see http://wiki.ros.org/urdf for the description), one haves to install the urdfdom package which can come either along ROS library or be installed as a standalone library. Next section describes the second procedure.
+
+urdfdom depends on both console_bridge and urdfdom_headers. The installation of both dependencies can be done with the following command lines in a terminal :
+  - git clone git://github.com/ros/console_bridge.git && cd console_bridge && mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make && sudo make install
+  - git clone git://github.com/ros/urdfdom_headers && cd urdfdom_headers && mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make && sudo make install
+    
+Finally, you just need to apply the following command line to install urdfdom library :
+  - git clone git://github.com/ros/urdfdom && cd urdfdom && mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make && sudo make install
+