diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4bb6103..9fd7bd8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ scikit-learn >= 0.23.2
 tensorflow-gpu >= 1.15, < 2
 imutils >= 0.5.3
 matplotlib
+setuptools >= 50