diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 62df528cf8..444c3e0d42 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -40,7 +40,11 @@ Part 2: Teaching Machines to Paint, Write, Compose and Play
 ## Getting started
 
 To get started, first install the required libraries inside a virtual environment:
-
+From terminal
+pip install virtualenvwrapper-win
+mkvirtualenv generative
+workon generative  # to go out deactivate
+python -m ipykernel install --user --name generative  # run in jupyterNB
 `pip install -r requirements.txt`
  
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 18873f6735..ec01f202df 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ decorator==4.3.2
 defusedxml==0.5.0
 entrypoints==0.3
 gast==0.2.2
-grpcio==1.18.0
+grpcio==1.24.3
 h5py==2.9.0
 ipykernel==5.1.0
 ipython==7.3.0