diff --git a/GettingStarted.wiki b/GettingStarted.wiki
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--- a/GettingStarted.wiki
+++ b/GettingStarted.wiki
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@
 
 You should read the text below, but if you want a quick refresher on how to get running, here's the TL;DR.
 
+== Prerequisites == 
+
+Melange depends on two things to be able to set up your system:
+ * python >= 2.7
+ * setuptools >= 0.7
+ * (optional) virtualenv >= 1.10
+
 == Setting up ==
 
 If you do not yet have a melange directory set up, run the following commands.
@@ -364,4 +371,18 @@
 ImportError: <module 'setuptools.dist' from ...> has no 'check_packages' attribute
 }}}
 
-If your bin/buildout fails with this error and you run bootstrap.py with python 2.5, try running it again with python2.6 instead.
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+If your bin/buildout fails with this error and you run bootstrap.py with python 2.5, try running it again with python2.6 instead.
+
+== pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (setuptools 0.6c11 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages), Requirement.parse('setuptools>=0.7')) ==
+
+{{{
+$ python bootstrap.py 
+Traceback (most recent call last):  File "bootstrap.py", line 159, in <module>    ws.require(requirement)  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 686, in require    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
+  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 588, in resolve    raise VersionConflict(dist,req) # XXX put more info herepkg_resources.VersionConflict: (setuptools 0.6c11 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages), Requirement.parse('setuptools>=0.7'))
+}}}
+
+Your version of setuptools is too old, the easiest way to fix this is to run:
+{{{
+sudo easy_install -U setuptools
+sudo easy_install -U virtualenv # optional
+}}}
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