2 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index f9276abe4..8cb360040 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ Example setup known to work for development and test:
 
 Install dependencies:
 $ sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv python-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev
+$ sudo easy_install -U setuptools
 
 Create a virtual environment:
 $ virtualenv ~/yardstick_venv
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 75e589ee3..a6848ec63 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-import ez_setup
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
-ez_setup.use_setuptools()
 
 setup(
     name="yardstick",