diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bd9eb62..7d7a71d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Automatically save python interpreter code to a file or secret Gist. You can tur
 
 ``` bash
 pip install pysession
-echo 'export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pysession/pysession.py' >> ~/.bashrc
+echo 'export PYTHONSTARTUP=$HOME/.pysession/pysession.py' >> ~/.bashrc
 ```
 
 If you are using zsh replace `.bashrc` in the above line with `.zshrc` and similarly for any other shell.
diff --git a/pysession.py b/pysession.py
index ffeed2f..caf385d 100644
--- a/pysession.py
+++ b/pysession.py
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ def load_history_urls(cls):
             PySession.previous_sessions = pickle.load(
                 io.open(SESSIONS_STORAGE, 'rb'))
         stdout.write(LAST_GISTS)
-        for session_url in previous_sessions:
+        for session_url in PySession.previous_sessions:
             stdout.write('\t' + session_url + '\n')
 
     @classmethod
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cea1b03..acf8e3a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,4 +1,17 @@
+from __future__ import print_function
 from setuptools import setup
+import os
+from os.path import exists, expanduser
+from shutil import copyfile
+
+ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+
+print(ROOT)
+
+if not os.path.exists(expanduser('~') + '/.pysession'):
+    os.makedirs(expanduser('~') + '/.pysession')
+
+copyfile(ROOT + '/pysession.py', expanduser('~') + '/.pysession/pysession.py')
 
 
 setup(