diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 004e014a..53f8c5de 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ def prerelease_local_scheme(version):
         'matplotlib',
         'pyvips',
         'termcolor',
+        'openpyxl',
+        'xlrd<2',
         # dask packages
         'dask[dataframe]>=1.1.0',
         'distributed>=1.21.6',