diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/mesos/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/mesos/default.nix
index 4329308ba04d..fe93a072b2cf 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/mesos/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/mesos/default.nix
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   buildInputs = [
     makeWrapper autoconf automake libtool curl sasl jdk maven
-    python wrapPython boto distutils-cfg
+    python wrapPython boto distutils-cfg setuptools
   ];
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [