diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8fac5792..264aaa5f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -19,3 +19,6 @@ var/www/static/
 
 # Local config
 bin/packages/config.cfg
+
+# installed files
+nltk_data/
diff --git a/installing_deps.sh b/installing_deps.sh
index 5756a1d4..f50b3313 100755
--- a/installing_deps.sh
+++ b/installing_deps.sh
@@ -9,17 +9,17 @@ sudo apt-get install python-pip python-virtualenv python-dev libfreetype6-dev \
     screen g++ python-tk unzip libsnappy-dev
 
 #Needed for bloom filters
-sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libfreetype6-dev python-numpy
+sudo pacman -S openssl python2-numpy --needed
 
 # DNS deps
-sudo apt-get install libadns1 libadns1-dev
+sudo pacman -S adns --needed
 
 #Needed for redis-lvlDB
-sudo apt-get install libev-dev libgmp-dev
+sudo pacman -S libev gmp --needed
 
 #needed for mathplotlib
 test ! -L /usr/include/ft2build.h && sudo ln -s freetype2/ft2build.h /usr/include/
-sudo easy_install -U distribute
+sudo easy_install-2.7 -U distribute
 
 # REDIS #
 test ! -d redis/ && git clone https://github.com/antirez/redis.git
diff --git a/installing_deps_archlinux.sh b/installing_deps_archlinux.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b921d3c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/installing_deps_archlinux.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+set -x
+
+sudo pacman -Syu
+
+sudo pacman -S python2-pip screen gcc unzip freetype2 python2 git --needed
+sudo yaourt -S snappy --needed
+sudo pip2 install virtualenv
+
+#Needed for bloom filters
+sudo pacman -S openssl python2-numpy --needed
+
+# DNS deps
+sudo pacman -S adns --needed
+
+#Needed for redis-lvlDB
+sudo pacman -S libev gmp --needed
+
+#needed for mathplotlib
+test ! -L /usr/include/ft2build.h && sudo ln -s freetype2/ft2build.h /usr/include/
+sudo easy_install-2.7 -U distribute
+
+# REDIS #
+test ! -d redis/ && git clone https://github.com/antirez/redis.git
+pushd redis/
+git checkout 2.8
+make
+popd
+
+# REDIS LEVEL DB #
+test ! -d redis-leveldb/ && git clone https://github.com/KDr2/redis-leveldb.git
+pushd redis-leveldb/
+git submodule init
+git submodule update
+make
+popd
+
+if [ ! -f bin/packages/config.cfg ]; then
+    cp bin/packages/config.cfg.sample bin/packages/config.cfg
+fi
+
+virtualenv AILENV
+
+echo export AIL_HOME=$(pwd) >> ./AILENV/bin/activate
+echo export AIL_BIN=$(pwd)/bin/ >> ./AILENV/bin/activate
+echo export AIL_FLASK=$(pwd)/var/www/ >> ./AILENV/bin/activate
+echo export AIL_REDIS=$(pwd)/redis/src/ >> ./AILENV/bin/activate
+echo export AIL_LEVELDB=$(pwd)/redis-leveldb/ >> ./AILENV/bin/activate
+
+. ./AILENV/bin/activate
+
+mkdir -p $AIL_HOME/{PASTES,Blooms,dumps}
+mkdir -p $AIL_HOME/LEVEL_DB_DATA/{2014,2013}
+
+pip install -r pip_packages_requirement.txt
+
+# Download the necessary NLTK corpora
+HOME=$(pwd) python -m textblob.download_corpora