diff --git a/setupbase.py b/setupbase.py
index 8a2289f1dcb..f039830b082 100644
--- a/setupbase.py
+++ b/setupbase.py
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ def find_packages():
     add_package(packages, 'external.pexpect')
     add_package(packages, 'external.pyparsing')
     add_package(packages, 'external.simplegeneric')
+    add_package(packages, 'external.ssh')
     add_package(packages, 'external.validate')
     add_package(packages, 'kernel')
     add_package(packages, 'frontend')