diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ REQUIREMENTS = [
     'lunardate',
     'pytz',
     'pyCalverter',
+    'setuptools==0.6c11',
 ]
 version = '1.3.0.dev0'
 __VERSION__ = version
refs #<I> -- use an obsolete version of setuptools

this version is known to be buggy and causes ``DistributionNotFound`` exceptions.