diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fef3117..d4e36c2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@
       author='David R. Mortensen',
       author_email='dmortens@cs.cmu.edu',
       license='MIT',
-      install_requires=['setuptools',
-                        'unicodecsv',
+      install_requires=['unicodecsv',
                         'PyYAML',
                         'regex',
                         'numpy>=1.20.2',