diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6d0755b2..06cd417f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ clean-routes:
 
 .PHONY:  build
 build:
-	@composer install --no-interaction
+	@php composer.phar install --no-interaction
 
 .PHONY: install
 install: build
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 726a5116..28d61b59 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ the old, phpVMS classic, it's [available here](https://github.com/nabeelio/phpvm
 
 # installation
 
+A full distribution, with all of the composer dependencies, is available at this [tarball link](http://phpvms.net/downloads/nightly.tar.gz). 
+It's currently updated with every commit
+
+## Composer Access
+
 run the following commands. for right now, we're running on sqlite. for mysql, set 
 `DB_CONNECTION` to `mysql` in the `.env` file.
 
diff --git a/composer.phar b/composer.phar
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d8d8a3f4
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