diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e544267a9e..b91d2d0793 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@
 setuptools_args = {}
 install_requires = setuptools_args['install_requires'] = [
     'ipykernel>=4.5.1',
+    'ipython_genutils~=0.2.0',
     'traitlets>=4.3.1',
     # Requiring nbformat to specify bugfix version which is not required by
     # notebook.