diff --git a/python/setup.py.in b/python/setup.py.in
index 2e22f640cb55677b6814b7f26a71457a96449de7..86fc0fc5c0318b03659bf84f8ad9e2a114467c74 100644
--- a/python/setup.py.in
+++ b/python/setup.py.in
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ packages=['paddle',
 setup_requires=["requests",
                 "numpy",
                 "protobuf==3.1",
+                "recordio",
                 "matplotlib",
                 "rarfile"]