diff --git a/.appveyor.yml b/.appveyor.yml
index 61afd8f5f..ec4f0c6e3 100644
--- a/.appveyor.yml
+++ b/.appveyor.yml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ install:
   - cinst gsutil
   - cinst openssl.light
   - wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/dpinney/omf/raw/master/omf/static/pygraphviz-1.3.1-cp27-none-win32.whl
-  - pip install --upgrade pip
+  - pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
   - pip install pygraphviz-1.3.1-cp27-none-win32.whl
   - pip install -r requirements.txt
   - python setup.py install