diff --git a/Open Media Library.app/Contents/MacOS/install.py b/Open Media Library.app/Contents/MacOS/install.py
index bee733d..26ba472 100755
--- a/Open Media Library.app/Contents/MacOS/install.py	
+++ b/Open Media Library.app/Contents/MacOS/install.py	
@@ -11,12 +11,11 @@ import SimpleHTTPServer
 import SocketServer
 from threading import Thread
 
-release_url = "http://downloads.openmedialibrary.com/release.json"
+
 PORT = 9842
-
-
 static_dir = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), '..', 'Resources', 'static'))
 
+
 class Handler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
     def do_OPTIONS(self):
         self.send_response(200, 'OK')
@@ -45,13 +44,10 @@ class Handler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
         self.end_headers()
         self.wfile.write(content)
 
-def get_release():
-    with closing(urllib2.urlopen(release_url)) as u:
-        data = json.load(u)
-    return data
-
 
 class Install(Thread):
+
+    release_url = "http://downloads.openmedialibrary.com/release.json"
     status = {}
 
     def __init__(self, target, httpd):
@@ -67,39 +63,36 @@ class Install(Thread):
         if not os.path.exists(target):
             os.makedirs(target)
         os.chdir(target)
-        release = get_release()
+        release = self.get_release()
         self.status["release"] = release
         for module in release['modules']:
-            self.status["installing"] = module
+            self.status["step"] = 'downloading %s' % module
             self.status["progress"] = 0
             self.status["size"] = 0
             package_tar = release['modules'][module]['name']
-            url = release_url.replace('release.json', package_tar)
+            url = self.release_url.replace('release.json', package_tar)
             self.download(url, package_tar)
+            self.status["step"] = 'extracting %s' % module
+            self.status["progress"] = 0
             tar = tarfile.open(package_tar)
             tar.extractall()
             tar.close()
             os.unlink(package_tar)
         os.symlink('openmedialibrary/ctl', 'ctl')
         self.status["progress"] = 0
-        self.status["installing"] = "setup"
+        self.status["step"] = "setup"
         os.system("./ctl setup")
         self.status["progress"] = 1
         with open('config/release.json', 'w') as fd:
             json.dump(release, fd, indent=2)
-        if sys.platform == 'darwin':
-            self.install_launchd()
-        elif sys.platform == 'linux2':
-            #fixme, do only if on debian/ubuntu
-            os.sysrem('sudo apt-get install python-imaging python-setproctitle python-simplejson')
-        self.status = json.dumps({"done": True})
+        self.install_launchd()
+        self.status = {"done": True}
         self.httpd.shutdown()
 
     def download(self, url, filename):
         dirname = os.path.dirname(filename)
         if dirname and not os.path.exists(dirname):
             os.makedirs(dirname)
-        print url, filename
         with open(filename, 'w') as f:
             with closing(urllib2.urlopen(url)) as u:
                 size = int(u.headers.get('content-length', 0))
@@ -113,6 +106,11 @@ class Install(Thread):
                     f.write(data)
                     data = u.read(4096)
 
+    def get_release(self):
+        with closing(urllib2.urlopen(self.release_url)) as u:
+            data = json.load(u)
+        return data
+
     def install_launchd(self):
         plist = os.path.expanduser('~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.openmedialibrary.loginscript.plist')
         with open(plist, 'w') as f:
diff --git a/Open Media Library.app/Contents/Resources/static/js/install.js b/Open Media Library.app/Contents/Resources/static/js/install.js
index 9e586c3..fa100f7 100644
--- a/Open Media Library.app/Contents/Resources/static/js/install.js	
+++ b/Open Media Library.app/Contents/Resources/static/js/install.js	
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ function update() {
     var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
     xhr.onload = function() {
         var response = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
-        if (response.installing) {
-            var status = response.installing;
+        if (response.step) {
+            var status = response.step;
             if (response.progress) {
                 status = parseInt(response.progress * 100) + '% ' + status;
             }