diff --git a/pkgs/games/anki/default.nix b/pkgs/games/anki/default.nix
index ebfdc0e13738..c3caf9105d05 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/anki/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/anki/default.nix
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 , glibcLocales
 , nose
 , jsonschema
+, setuptools
 , send2trash
 , CoreAudio
 # This little flag adds a huge number of dependencies, but we assume that
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ buildPythonApplication rec {
 
     propagatedBuildInputs = [
       pyqtwebengine sqlalchemy beautifulsoup4 send2trash pyaudio requests decorator
-      markdown jsonschema
+      markdown jsonschema setuptools
     ]
       ++ lib.optional plotsSupport matplotlib
       ++ lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin [ CoreAudio ]