diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8d24245..107e25b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -13,11 +13,14 @@
 
 
 def _post_install():
-    """Post installation nltk corpus downloads."""
-    import nltk
+    try:
+        """Post installation nltk corpus downloads."""
+        import nltk
 
-    nltk.download("punkt")
-    nltk.download("stopwords")
+        nltk.download("punkt")
+        nltk.download("stopwords")
+    except:
+        pass
 
 
 class PostDevelop(develop):