diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
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+deps
diff --git a/install-deps b/install-deps
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import os
+import sys
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
+
+DEPS_DIR = 'deps'
+NUMPY_VER = '1.6.1'
+
+numpy_src = 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/numpy/NumPy/%s/numpy-%s.tar.gz' % (NUMPY_VER, NUMPY_VER)
+sources = [
+        numpy_src
+        ]
+
+def indirdo(dr, fn):
+    owd = os.getcwd()
+    os.chdir(dr)
+    fn()
+    os.chdir(owd)
+
+if not os.path.exists(DEPS_DIR):
+    os.makedirs(DEPS_DIR)
+os.chdir(DEPS_DIR)
+
+for src_url in sources:
+    src_fname = src_url.split('/')[-1]
+    src_dname = src_fname.replace('.tar.gz', '')
+    if not os.path.exists(src_fname):
+        Popen(['wget', src_url]).wait()
+    if not os.path.exists(src_dname):
+        Popen(['tar', '-xvzf', src_fname]).wait()
+
+if not os.path.exists('/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy'):
+    indirdo('numpy-%s' % NUMPY_VER, lambda:
+        Popen(['sudo', 'python', 'setup.py', 'install']).wait()
+        )