diff --git a/scripts/create-dev-env.sh b/scripts/create-dev-env.sh
index 0816b72d21..56fd744972 100755
--- a/scripts/create-dev-env.sh
+++ b/scripts/create-dev-env.sh
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ DISTRIBUTE_VER="0.6.28"
 output "Building Distribute"
 SITE_PACKAGES="$HOME/.virtualenvs/edx-platform/lib/python2.7/site-packages"
 cd "$SITE_PACKAGES"
-curl -O http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-${DISTRIBUTE_VER}.tar.gz
+curl -OL http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-${DISTRIBUTE_VER}.tar.gz
 tar -xzvf distribute-${DISTRIBUTE_VER}.tar.gz
 cd distribute-${DISTRIBUTE_VER}
 python setup.py install