diff --git a/bin/client.sh b/bin/client.sh
index 0863ad08..af03aff3 100755
--- a/bin/client.sh
+++ b/bin/client.sh
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ echo "Building client version $VERSION"
 cd $MNML_PATH/client
 rm -f "/var/lib/mnml/$VERSION"
 rm -rf dist
+npm i
 npm run build
 
 echo "copying build to /var/lib/mnml/$VERSION"
diff --git a/bin/install.sh b/bin/install.sh
index 8b98ee6f..58621eaf 100755
--- a/bin/install.sh
+++ b/bin/install.sh
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ source $MNML_CONF
 #       /var/lib/mnml
 # contains img data, client builds
 sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/mnml
+sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/mnml/src
 sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/mnml/public/imgs
 sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/mnml/client
 sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/mnml/data
@@ -45,8 +46,7 @@ sudo setfacl -d -m group:mnml:rwx /var/log/mnml
 sudo chown -R $MNML_USER:$MNML_USER /var/log/mnml
 
 #       /usr/local/mnml
-sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/mnml
-sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/mnml
+sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/mnml/bin
 
 sudo setfacl -d -m group:mnml:rwx /usr/local/mnml
 sudo chmod -R g+w /usr/local/mnml