diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 91f1ebe..fbc41eb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 dist
+venv
 **/__pycache__
diff --git a/check_updates.sh b/check_updates.sh
index 20ed985..5487139 100755
--- a/check_updates.sh
+++ b/check_updates.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,18 @@ if [[ ${retval} -ne 0 ]]; then
   # for the sake of consistency, let's make the check_updates.sh script
   # executable
   chmod +x check_updates.sh
-  # Updating the environment is left to hatch itself.
+
+  # Updating runtime
+  if [[ -d venv ]]; then 
+    source venv/bin/activate
+  fi
+  pip3 uninstall -y loaih
+  # build the actual toolkit
+  python3 -m build --sdist
+  pip3 install dist/*.tar.gz; rv=$?
+  if [[ -d venv ]]; then 
+    deactivate
+  fi
 
   if [[ ${rv} -eq 0 ]]; then
     # cleanup