diff --git a/doc/setup.mdwn b/doc/setup.mdwn
index ac491baae..206f4b664 100644
--- a/doc/setup.mdwn
+++ b/doc/setup.mdwn
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ Or, set up a blog with ikiwiki, run this command instead.
 
 	% ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup
 
+`librpc-xml-perl` and `python-docutils` dependencies are needed.
+
 Either way, it will ask you a couple of questions.
 
 	What will the wiki be named? foo