While we handle most of the dependency installation automatically via the install script ( https://github.com/verivital/nnv/blob/master/nnv/install.m ), we need to make it clear what other dependencies there are on existing toolboxes (eg, deep learning toolbox) and addons (eg, VGG). Please add this information to the readme, then eventually we need to automate the installation of these. I would suggest in the startup_nnv script ( https://github.com/verivital/nnv/blob/master/nnv/startup_nnv.m ) to add checks for whether all the dependencies are installed, and if not, give the user guidance on what is missing and how to install. One can query whether toolboxes or addons are installed via eg ver.