diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 91ff36e34c9..7f7786ee98d 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Depends:
  python-pydot,
  python-pyparsing,
  python-reportlab,
+ python-requests,
  python-simplejson,
  python-tz,
  python-unittest2,
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a44e26fd36f..545b02e9bbd 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ setuptools.setup(
           'pyyaml',
           'qrcode',
           'reportlab', # windows binary pypi.python.org/pypi/reportlab
+          'requests',
           'simplejson',
           'unittest2',
           'vatnumber',