There are 2 ways to get your dependencies up-and-running:

This is the best way to not be broken. The Polymer team doesn't use bower in day-to-day development and so Topeka might be broken more frequently if you use the Bower-based workflow.

1. Checkout topeka

2. Do the following:

    mkdir components
    cd components
    git clone https://github.com/Polymer/tools.git
    cd ..
    ./components/tools/bin/pull-all.sh #get a copy of all of Polymer
   

1. Checkout topeka
2. Make sure you have npm and bower installed installed.
3. cd topeka and bower install

• ./deploy.sh
• profit!