diff --git a/install_deb.sh b/install_deb.sh
index 0561494a..1ec42579 100755
--- a/install_deb.sh
+++ b/install_deb.sh
@@ -2,19 +2,25 @@
 # Installs dependencies, builds Silverfish, and places it into your path
 # Be sure to validate the Rust and LLVM install scripts we invoke below!
 
+sudo="sudo"
+if [[ $(whoami) == "root" ]]; then
+  sudo=""
+fi
+
 # Exit if not executing script from project root because we use relative paths
 # We want to match without case because the URL of the git repo is case insensitive, but the resulting
 # directory is case sensitive. Thus, we can end up with either "aWsm" or "awsm."
 shopt -s nocasematch
-if [[ $(git remote get-url origin) != *"/aWsm.git" || $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) != $(pwd) ]]; then
+if [[ $(git remote get-url origin) != *"/awsm"* || $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) != $(pwd) ]]; then
   echo "Install script must be run from project root."
   exit 1
 fi
 shopt -u nocasematch
 
 # Install Build Dependencies
-sudo apt install build-essential --yes
-sudo apt install cmake --yes
+$sudo apt install build-essential --yes
+$sudo apt install cmake --yes
+$sudo apt install lsb-release wget software-properties-common --yes
 
 # Initialize Wasmception submodule
 # Check to see if ./wasmception directory exists and is not empty.
@@ -38,13 +44,13 @@ source "$HOME/.cargo/env"
 export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"
 
 # Install LLVM build dependencies
-LLVM_VERSION=9
-sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - https://apt.llvm.org/llvm.sh)" bash $LLVM_VERSION
-sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang clang /usr/bin/clang-$LLVM_VERSION 100
-sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang++ clang++ /usr/bin/clang++-$LLVM_VERSION 100
-sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/llvm-config llvm-config /usr/bin/llvm-config-$LLVM_VERSION 100
-sudo apt install libc++-dev libc++abi-dev --yes
+LLVM_VERSION=11
+$sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - https://apt.llvm.org/llvm.sh)" bash $LLVM_VERSION
+$sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang clang /usr/bin/clang-$LLVM_VERSION 100
+$sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang++ clang++ /usr/bin/clang++-$LLVM_VERSION 100
+$sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/llvm-config llvm-config /usr/bin/llvm-config-$LLVM_VERSION 100
+$sudo apt install libc++-dev libc++abi-dev --yes
 
 # Build and install Silverfish
 cargo build --release
-sudo cp -t /usr/bin ./target/release/silverfish
+$sudo cp -t /usr/bin ./target/release/silverfish