diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index d9a8c7a..7cc51a6 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ setenv =
   DB_ENGINE=django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2
   DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=corbo.settings
   CORBO_SETTINGS_FILE=tests/settings.py
+  SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib
   coverage: COVERAGE=--junitxml=test_results.xml --cov-report xml --cov-report html --cov=corbo/ --cov-config .coveragerc
 deps =
   django111: django>=1.11,<1.12