diff --git a/install/pip.sh b/install/pip.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 050e9b5..f2b1a2b
--- a/install/pip.sh
+++ b/install/pip.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # this will install common libraries in pip 
 
+# adjust the pip version to whatever coincides with the python version installed in python.sh
+# should be a good base of pkgs - https://pythontips.com/2013/07/30/20-python-libraries-you-cant-live-without/ip2 install lxml
+
+version=2.7
+pip${version} install requests
+pip${version} install lxml
+pip${version} install requests
+pip${version} install scrapy
+pip${version} install BeautifulSoup4
+pip${version} install twisted
+pip${version} install numpy
+pip${version} install scapy
+pip${version} install nose
+pip${version} install ipython
diff --git a/install/python.sh b/install/python.sh
index 9f1b081..25daeb0 100755
--- a/install/python.sh
+++ b/install/python.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 # https://www.python.org/downloads/
 
 py_version=2.7.12
+pip_version=2.7
 download_url=https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.12/Python-${py_version}.tar.xz
 
 # download the python version and extract it
@@ -24,5 +25,5 @@ make install
 
 # update the users $PATH variable to include the newly installed python binary
 
-export PATH="$DOTFILES_DIR/python/Python-${py_version}:$PATH" 
-export PYTHONPATH="$DOTFILES_DIR/python/Python-${py_version}"
+export PATH="$DOTFILES_DIR/python/bin:$PATH" 
+export PYTHONPATH="$DOTFILES_DIR/python/bin"