diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8c243aa3e..e69de29bb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-MySQL-python==1.2.5
-nltk==3.2.4
-pandas==0.20.2
-python-dateutil==2.6.0
-scikit-learn==0.18.2
-scipy==0.19.1
-sklearn==0.0
diff --git a/scripts/setup_python_env.sh b/scripts/setup_python_env.sh
index 29ec248dc..b1c360ea0 100755
--- a/scripts/setup_python_env.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup_python_env.sh
@@ -17,15 +17,25 @@
 ROOT_DIR=$PWD;
 
 echo "installing python virtual env...";
+
 if [[ -f "$ROOT_DIR/requirements.txt" ]]; then
 	echo "found requirements.txt files";
 	# install virtual env
 
 	echo "creating py venv"
-  python -m venv env
+  python3 -m venv env
   source $ROOT_DIR/env/bin/activate;
+
   cd $ROOT_DIR && pip install --upgrade pip
   cd $ROOT_DIR && pip install --upgrade setuptools
+  cd $ROOT_DIR && pip install --upgrade python-dateutil
+  cd $ROOT_DIR && pip install --upgrade mysqlclient
+  cd $ROOT_DIR && pip install --upgrade pandas
+  cd $ROOT_DIR && pip install --upgrade numpy
+  cd $ROOT_DIR && pip install --upgrade scikit-learn
+  cd $ROOT_DIR && pip install --upgrade nltk
+  cd $ROOT_DIR && pip install --upgrade scipy
+  cd $ROOT_DIR && pip install --upgrade sklearn
 
 	# install dependencies
 	$ROOT_DIR/env/bin/python env/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt;