diff --git a/bin/ansible-playbook b/bin/ansible-playbook
index 5aa020a9245..8714f95ab9e 100755
--- a/bin/ansible-playbook
+++ b/bin/ansible-playbook
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
 
 #######################################################
 
+__requires__ = ['ansible']
+import pkg_resources
+
 import sys
 import os
 import stat
diff --git a/bin/ansible-vault b/bin/ansible-vault
index 2c8094d13b1..a2f40362a14 100755
--- a/bin/ansible-vault
+++ b/bin/ansible-vault
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
 # example playbook to bootstrap this script in the examples/ dir which
 # installs ansible and sets it up to run on cron.
 
+__requires__ = ['ansible']
+import pkg_resources
+
 import os
 import sys
 import traceback
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c537ee9766c..34425e1f37b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ setup(name='ansible',
       author_email='michael@ansible.com',
       url='http://ansible.com/',
       license='GPLv3',
-      install_requires=['paramiko', 'jinja2', "PyYAML"],
+      install_requires=['paramiko', 'jinja2', "PyYAML", 'setuptools', 'pycrypto >= 2.6'],
       package_dir={ 'ansible': 'lib/ansible' },
       packages=[
          'ansible',