diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml
index a15240835..10aef9c29 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ jobs:
         run: python -m pip install --user --upgrade wheel
       - name: Install twine
         run: python -m pip install --user --upgrade twine
+      - name: Install setuptools
+        run: python -m pip install --user --upgrade setuptools
       - name: Build a binary wheel and a source tarball
         run: python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
       - name: Publish distribution to PyPI