diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4cdf72bb1..ec42b54e8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # generated from manifests external_dependencies
 lxml
+openpyxl
 xlrd
 xlsxwriter
diff --git a/setup/sql_export_excel/odoo/addons/sql_export_excel b/setup/sql_export_excel/odoo/addons/sql_export_excel
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..fe30a58d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup/sql_export_excel/odoo/addons/sql_export_excel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../../sql_export_excel
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup/sql_export_excel/setup.py b/setup/sql_export_excel/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..28c57bb64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup/sql_export_excel/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import setuptools
+
+setuptools.setup(
+    setup_requires=['setuptools-odoo'],
+    odoo_addon=True,
+)