diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,19 +3,9 @@
 To install, paste this into your terminal.
 
 This wont work on windows, you will need to do these steps with the windows equivalents
-to get the files
+# to get the files
 ```bash
 git clone --recursive https://github.com/MistWarp/desktop mistwarp-desktop
 ```
-to update and build them
-```bash
-cd mistwarp-desktop
-git pull
-npm ci
-npm run fetch
-npm run electron:package:dir
-cd dist
-pwd
-```
-
-The last line of this will tell you the directory to open in your file manager, then go into the folder named the platform you are on (mac/linux/windows) and find the executable, then you should move the executable to your applications folder or similar and you are done.
+# to update and build them
+run update.bat or update.sh
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a1e19f3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+cd mistwarp-desktop
+git pull
+npm ci
+npm run fetch
+npm run electron:package:dir
+cd dist
+pwd
diff --git a/update.bat b/update.bat
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..02f39019
--- /dev/null
+++ b/update.bat
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+@echo off
+cd mistwarp-desktop
+git pull
+npm ci
+npm run fetch
+npm run electron:package:dir
+cd dist
+cd