diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3c028c2f..7e577b60 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,11 +21,22 @@ git subtrees:
 
 # How to build dupeGuru from source
 
+## The very, very, very easy way
+
+If you're on Linux or Mac, there's a bootstrap script that will make building very, very easy. There
+might be some things that you need to install manually on your system, but the bootstrap script will
+tell you when what you need to install. You can run the bootstrap with:
+
+    ./bootstrap.sh
+
+and follow instructions from the script. You can then ignore the rest of the build documentation.
+
 ## Prerequisites installation
 
-Then, you have to make sure that your system has to "non-pip-installable" prerequisites installed:
+Prerequisites are installed through `pip`. However, some of them are not "pip installable" and have
+to be installed manually.
 
-* All systems: [Python 3.2+][python] and [distribute][distribute]
+* All systems: [Python 3.2+][python] and [setuptools][setuptools]
 * Mac OS X: The last XCode to have the 10.6 SDK included.
 * Windows: Visual Studio 2008, [PyQt 4.7+][pyqt], [cx_Freeze][cxfreeze] and
   [Advanced Installer][advinst] (you only need the last two if you want to create an installer)
@@ -55,13 +66,12 @@ Then, you can install pip requirements in your virtualenv:
 ## Alternative: pyvenv
 
 If you're on Python 3.3+, you can use the built-in `pyvenv` instead of `virtualenv`. `pyvenv` is
-pretty much the same thing as `virtualenv`, except that it doesn't install distribute and pip, so it
+pretty much the same thing as `virtualenv`, except that it doesn't install setuptools and pip, so it
 has to be installed manually:
 
     $ pyvenv --system-site-packages env
     $ source env/bin/activate
-    $ curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
-    $ python distribute_setup.py
+    $ wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py -O - | python
     $ easy_install pip
 
 ## Actual building and running
@@ -78,7 +88,7 @@ You can also package dupeGuru into an installable package with:
 
 [documentation]: http://www.hardcoded.net/dupeguru/help/en/
 [python]: http://www.python.org/
-[distribute]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute
+[setuptools]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
 [pyqt]: http://www.riverbankcomputing.com
 [cxfreeze]: http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net/
 [advinst]: http://www.advancedinstaller.com
diff --git a/bootstrap.sh b/bootstrap.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..d66971d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bootstrap.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+command -v pyvenv >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "Python 3.3 required. Install it and try again. Aborting"; exit 1; }
+
+if [ ! -d "env" ]; then
+    echo "No virtualenv. Creating one"
+    pyvenv --system-site-packages env
+    source env/bin/activate
+    wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py -O - | python
+    easy_install pip
+else
+    echo "There's already an env. Activating it"
+    source env/bin/activate
+fi
+
+echo "Installing pip requirements"
+if [ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]; then
+    pip install -r requirements-osx.txt
+else
+    python3 -c "import PyQt4" >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "PyQt 4.8+ required. Install it and try again. Aborting"; exit 1; }
+    pip install -r requirements.txt
+fi
+
+echo "Bootstrapping complete! You can now configure, build and run dupeGuru with:"
+echo ". env/bin/activate && python configure.py && python build.py && python run.py"
diff --git a/requirements-extra.txt b/requirements-extra.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b6e0e645
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements-extra.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+pytest>=2.0.0
+pytest-monkeyplus>=1.0.0
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 707a55f9..9e8cf87c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,5 +3,3 @@ Send2Trash>=1.3.0
 sphinx>=1.1.3
 polib>=0.7.0
 hsaudiotag3k>=1.1.3
-pytest>=2.0.0
-pytest-monkeyplus>=1.0.0