diff --git a/README b/README
index e94880b..3ad3ec5 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ REQUIREMENTS
 - GStreamer and its python bindings, for encoding
   - gst-plugins-base >= 0.10.22 for appsink
 - python musicbrainz2, for metadata lookup
+- python-setuptools, for plugin support
 - python-cddb, for showing but not using disc info if not in musicbrainz
 - pycdio, for drive identification (optional)
 
diff --git a/bin/rip.in b/bin/rip.in
index 1ce5eb9..6bf16ed 100755
--- a/bin/rip.in
+++ b/bin/rip.in
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ try:
     from morituri.rip import main
     sys.exit(main.main(sys.argv[1:]))
 except ImportError, e:
-    raise
-    from morituri.util import deps
-    deps.handleImportError(e)
+    from morituri.common import deps
+    h = deps.DepsHandler()
+    h.handleImportError(e)
+    sys.exit(1)
diff --git a/morituri/common/deps.py b/morituri/common/deps.py
index eec409d..ec1062e 100644
--- a/morituri/common/deps.py
+++ b/morituri/common/deps.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ class DepsHandler(deps.DepsHandler):
 
         self.add(GStPython())
         self.add(CDDB())
+        self.add(SetupTools())
 
     def report(self, summary):
         reporter = os.environ.get('EMAIL_ADDRESS', None)
@@ -47,3 +48,10 @@ class CDDB(deps.Dependency):
         return self.Ubuntu_apt('python-cddb')
 
 
+class SetupTools(deps.Dependency):
+    module = 'pkg_resources'
+    name = "python-setuptools"
+    homepage = "http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools"
+
+    def Fedora_install(self, distro):
+        return self.Fedora_yum('python-setuptools')