diff --git a/ci/install_basics.sh b/ci/install_basics.sh
index 0a327c75f4ab74a2ea0bb744067a673f0346e5a1..2cfe4dbd22ac8d6b672372536dc89c702ae6c567 100644
--- a/ci/install_basics.sh
+++ b/ci/install_basics.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-apt-get install -y build-essential  git autoconf libtool \
+apt-get install -y build-essential  git autoconf libtool pkg-config \
   libfftw3-bin libfftw3-dev libfftw3-double3 libfftw3-long3 libfftw3-quad3 libfftw3-single3 \
   python python-pip python-dev python-nose \
   python3 python3-pip python3-dev python3-nose
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4040072cf4edcb9cdf08e3e179c1972dfc5d8ab5..603cb0df783511d7e0338ea0340573d3ddc7571b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ setup(name="nifty2go",
       dependency_links=[
                'git+https://gitlab.mpcdf.mpg.de/ift/pyHealpix.git@setuptools_test#egg=pyHealpix-0.0.1'],
       license="GPLv3",
-      setup_requires=['future', 'pyHealpix>=0.0.1', 'numpy>=1.13', 'pyfftw>=0.10.4', 'matplotlib'],
+      setup_requires=['future', 'pyHealpix>=0.0.1', 'numpy>=1.13', 'pyfftw>=0.10.4'],
       classifiers=[
         "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
         "Topic :: Utilities",