diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 91504d81..648d3e5e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 boto3>=1.7.55
 retrying~=1.3
+setuptools
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 118dfbc6..c1cae580 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def read(fname):
     "computemgtd = slurm_plugin.computemgtd:main",
 ]
 version = "3.15.0"
-requires = ["boto3>=1.7.55", "retrying>=1.3.3"]
+requires = ["boto3>=1.7.55", "retrying>=1.3.3", "setuptools"]
 
 setup(
     name="aws-parallelcluster-node",