diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index e7202e6..1bdbfde 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ whitelist_externals =
 setenv =
     DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings
     PYTHONPATH=tests
+    SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib
     coverage: COVERAGE=--cov-branch --cov-append --cov=src/ --cov-report=html --cov-report=xml --cov-config .coveragerc
     sqlite: DB_ENGINE=django.db.backends.sqlite3
     pg: DB_ENGINE=django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2