update install instructions for pip (#71891)

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diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/installation_guide/intro_installation.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/installation_guide/intro_installation.rst
index 7e208ecde3..eca7a92a6e 100644
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/installation_guide/intro_installation.rst
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@@ -488,7 +488,11 @@ You can also use "sudo make install".
 Finding tarballs of tagged releases
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-Packaging Ansible or wanting to build a local package yourself, but don't want to do a git checkout?  Tarballs of releases are available on the `Ansible downloads <https://releases.ansible.com/ansible>`_ page.
+Packaging Ansible or wanting to build a local package yourself, but don't want to do a git checkout?  Tarballs of releases are available from ``pypi`` as https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible/ansible-{{VERSION}}.tar.gz. You can make VERSION a variable in your package managing system that you update in one place whenever you package a new version. Alternately, you can download https://pypi.python.org/project/ansible  to get the latest stable release.
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+.. note::
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+	If you are creating your own Ansible package, you must also download or package ``ansible-base`` as part of your Ansible package. You can download it as https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-base/ansible-base-{{VERSION}}.tar.gz.
 
 These releases are also tagged in the `git repository <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/releases>`_ with the release version.