diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6d245c082..a70ab251e 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -100,6 +100,9 @@
           'tornado',
           'traitlets',
       ],
+      setup_requires=[
+          'jupyter_nbextensions_configurator',
+      ],
       #packages=['IPython-contrib-nbextensions'],
       # **addargs
 )