diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2136238..1cf739d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 kafka-python>=0.9.0
 kazoo>=1.3
-mysqldb
+MySQL-python
 python-statsd>=1.6.3
-yaml
+PyYAML
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0b6ed1d..a09a861 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ setuptools.setup(
     license="Apache",
     keywords="openstack monitoring email",
     url="https://github.com/hpcloud-mon/mon-notification",
+    # possibly preferable to have the OS precompiled mysql version, python-mysqldb package on Ubuntu
+    install_requires=["kafka-python>=0.9.0", "kazoo>=1.3", "MySQL-python", "python-statsd>=1.6.3", "PyYAML"],
     packages=setuptools.find_packages(exclude=['tests']),
     entry_points={
         'console_scripts': [