diff --git a/cassandra_mirror/backup.py b/cassandra_mirror/backup.py
index 3b61a2a..839ce70 100644
--- a/cassandra_mirror/backup.py
+++ b/cassandra_mirror/backup.py
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ def upload_s3(cmd, s3_object):
             '-k', s3_object.key,
         ]
 
-        cmd | gof3r_cmd & FG
+        (cmd | gof3r_cmd) & FG
     else:
         with cmd.bgrun() as proc:
             s3_object.upload_fileobj(proc.stdout)
diff --git a/cassandra_mirror/restore.py b/cassandra_mirror/restore.py
index 69c906c..eb34ca2 100644
--- a/cassandra_mirror/restore.py
+++ b/cassandra_mirror/restore.py
@@ -65,13 +65,13 @@ def pipe():
 def download_s3(cmd, s3_object):
     logger.info('Downloading %s', s3_object.key)
     if gof3r:
-        gof3r_cmd = s3gof3r[
+        gof3r_cmd = gof3r[
             'get',
             '--no-md5',
             '-b', s3_object.bucket_name,
             '-k', s3_object.key,
         ]
-        gof3r_cmd | cmd & FG
+        (gof3r_cmd | cmd) & FG
     else:
         with cmd.bgrun(stdin=PIPE) as future:
             s3_object.download_fileobj(future.stdin)
diff --git a/cassandra_mirror/util.py b/cassandra_mirror/util.py
index b0722b3..5edca3a 100644
--- a/cassandra_mirror/util.py
+++ b/cassandra_mirror/util.py
@@ -6,19 +6,14 @@
 from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory
 import os
 
+import pkg_resources
 import boto3
 import json
 import yaml
 
-from plumbum import local
+from plumbum.machines.local import LocalCommand
 from plumbum.commands.processes import CommandNotFound
-gof3r = None
-try:
-    # local.get raises exceptions, violating Python norms of .get() not
-    # raising exceptions
-    gof3r = local.get('gof3r')
-except CommandNotFound:
-    pass
+gof3r = LocalCommand(pkg_resources.resource_filename(__name__, "gof3r"))
 
 s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index cc0dfd2..244e5ed 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ Build-Depends:
 
 Package: cassandra-mirror
 Architecture: amd64
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, s3gof3r
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Description: mirrors data from Cassandra into other datastores
 
diff --git a/download.sh b/download.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..04147e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/download.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -o errexit
+curl -LO https://github.com/rlmcpherson/s3gof3r/releases/download/v0.5.0/gof3r_0.5.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz
+echo d88f199d1580d8c8cac26ba39e15dc6e2126d20e56c3894bd37a226e8b3e665c gof3r_0.5.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz | sha256sum -c
+tar --strip-components 1 -C cassandra_mirror -xvf gof3r_0.5.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 035fe21..8f28bed 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
             'check=cassandra_mirror.check:do_check',
         ]
     ),
+    package_data={ 'cassandra_mirror': ['gof3r'] },
     install_requires=[
         'boto3>=1.4.2',
         'PyYAML>=3.12',