diff --git a/tools/setup.py b/tools/setup.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+setup(
+    name="sdbusplus",
+    version="1.0",
+    packages=find_packages(),
+    install_requires=["inflection", "mako", "pyyaml"],
+    scripts=["sdbus++"],
+    package_data={"sdbusplus": ["templates/*.mako.*"]},
+    url="http://github.com/openbmc/sdbusplus",
+    classifiers=["License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License"],
+)