diff --git a/samples/torch/README.md b/samples/torch/README.md
index 8a5419c10ab..1897ff2baf2 100644
--- a/samples/torch/README.md
+++ b/samples/torch/README.md
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ make sure you have Python 2.X and pyyaml installed:
     # Linux: if you don't have pip
     apt-get -y install python-pip
     
-    # if you don't have pyyaml
-    sudo pip install pyyaml
+    # if you don't have pyyaml or typing
+    sudo pip install pyyaml typing
     
 Now
 
@@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ You may need to specify `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` or `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH` to `$HOME/.kona
 if the ATen dynamic library cannot be found.
 
 Even on a CPU, training should only take some minutes, 
-and you should observe a classification accuracy of about 95% on the test dataset.
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+and you should observe a classification accuracy of about 95% on the test dataset.
diff --git a/samples/torch/downloadMNIST.sh b/samples/torch/downloadMNIST.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755