diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 30fc6a46..95398f3b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -77,16 +77,6 @@ linux based distributions, you can replace it with [installing_deps_archlinux.sh
 
 There is also a [Travis file](.travis.yml) used for automating the installation that can be used to build and install AIL on other systems.
 
-Concerning the sentiment module, nltk.sentiment.vader must be installed manually.
-
-In your AIL virtualenv, type
-```
-python
-import nltk
-nltk.download()
-```
-and then install the sentiment.vader module
-
 
 Starting AIL web interface
 --------------------------
diff --git a/installing_deps.sh b/installing_deps.sh
index 805818e1..6af62795 100755
--- a/installing_deps.sh
+++ b/installing_deps.sh
@@ -83,5 +83,6 @@ pushd tlsh/py_ext
 python setup.py build
 python setup.py install
 
-# Download the necessary NLTK corpora
+# Download the necessary NLTK corpora and sentiment vader
 HOME=$(pwd) python -m textblob.download_corpora
+python -m nltk.downloader vader_lexicon