diff --git a/deployment/install_env b/deployment/install_env
index 79c7c8fb6..c4aa23e61 100644
--- a/deployment/install_env
+++ b/deployment/install_env
@@ -5,13 +5,25 @@ source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
 workon oggm_env
 
 pip install --quiet --upgrade pip
+
+echo "Installing numpy..."
 pip install --quiet numpy
+
+echo "Installing scipy..."
 pip install --quiet scipy
+
+echo "Installing pandas shapely matplotlib..."
 pip install --quiet pandas shapely
 pip install --quiet matplotlib
+
+echo "Installing gdal fiona..."
 pip install --quiet gdal==1.10.0 --install-option="build_ext" --install-option="--include-dirs=/usr/include/gdal"
 pip install --quiet fiona --install-option="build_ext" --install-option="--include-dirs=/usr/include/gdal"
+
+echo "Installing other packages..."
 pip install --quiet pyproj rasterio Pillow geopandas netcdf4 scikit-image configobj joblib xarray nose
+
+echo "Installing git packages..."
 pip install --quiet git+https://github.com/fmaussion/motionless.git
 pip install --quiet git+https://github.com/fmaussion/salem.git
 pip install --quiet git+https://github.com/fmaussion/cleo.git