diff --git a/requirements/edx/local.txt b/requirements/edx/local.txt
index 8a9568fdd5..0e775d04e3 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/local.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/local.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # Python libraries to install that are local to the edx-platform repo
+-e .
 -e common/lib/calc
 -e common/lib/capa
 -e common/lib/chem
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0fd2f08840
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+setup(
+    name="Open edX",
+    version="0.1",
+    install_requires=['distribute'],
+    requires=[],
+    # NOTE: These are not the names we should be installing.  This tree should
+    # be reorgnized to be a more conventional Python tree.
+    packages=[
+        "lms",
+        "cms",
+        "i18n",
+    ],
+)