diff --git a/punkt-download.py b/punkt-download.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 0b00ca8..430bfc8
--- a/punkt-download.py
+++ b/punkt-download.py
@@ -1,9 +1,17 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 import os
+import shutil
 from pathlib import Path
 
 import nltk
 
 script_dir = Path(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))
 target = script_dir / 'punkt'
-print('Downloading punkt to:', target)
+print('Target directory:', target)
+
+
+print('Erasing old install...')
+shutil.rmtree(target, ignore_errors=True)
+
+print('Downloading punkt...')
 nltk.download('punkt', download_dir=target)
diff --git a/server.py b/server.py
index ef7ae44..a1a5b1d 100644
--- a/server.py
+++ b/server.py
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ async def startup_event():
     if not (script_dir / 'punkt' / 'tokenizers' / 'punkt').is_dir():
         logger.critical(f'Punkt not found at "{script_dir}/punkt". Please run "./punkt-download.py" first.')
         sys.exit(1)
-    nltk.download('punkt', download_dir=script_dir / 'punkt')
     q = asyncio.Queue()
     app.model_queue = q
     await asyncio.create_task(server_loop(q))