diff --git a/elements/openstack-clients/install.d/50-openstack-clients b/elements/openstack-clients/install.d/50-openstack-clients
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -eux
+
+install-packages git build-essential python-dev libssl-dev python-pip python-virtualenv libxml2-dev libxslt-dev