diff --git a/depends.pacman b/depends.pacman
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b63f316
--- /dev/null
+++ b/depends.pacman
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+linux
+linux-firmware
+wpa_supplicant
+dhcpcd
+networkmanager
+pulseaudio
+git
+base
+base-devel
+curl
+xorg
+bspwm
+sxhkd
+xorg-xrandr
+imagemagick
+mpv
+feh
+neovim
+tig
+python
+openssh
+tmux
+fzy
+tor
+torsocks
+firefox
+chromium
+jq
+remind
+ledger
+cmus
+yt-dlp
+python-pip
diff --git a/depends.pip b/depends.pip
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6eb2539
--- /dev/null
+++ b/depends.pip
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+neovim
+spotify-dl
diff --git a/deploy.sh b/deploy.sh
index bf12a63..e3f548f 100644
--- a/deploy.sh
+++ b/deploy.sh
@@ -8,6 +8,16 @@ for i in $modules; do
 	ln -sf "$(pwd)/$i" "$HOME/gitt/"
 done
 
+if [ -f /etc/arch-release ]; then
+	pacman_packages=$(cat depends.pacman | tr '\n' ' ')
+	sudo pacman -Syu $pacman_packages
+fi
+
+pip_packages=$(cat depends.pip | tr '\n' ' ')
+pip install $pip_packages
+
+exit
+
 cd dot
 make
 echo "### WARNING: you need to install environment hooks and firefox setup later. please do that. ###"