diff --git a/roles/web_server/tasks/main.yml b/roles/web_server/tasks/main.yml
index a6c9dd981532513f7c7dc4dad3d065e00659bd73..3340ac3eb90d52cc4f8cd1d482128a8472b0c227 100644
--- a/roles/web_server/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/web_server/tasks/main.yml
@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@
     name: "{{ item }}"
     state: present
   with_items:
+    - python-setuptools
+    - python3-setuptools
     - virtualenv
     - virtualenvwrapper