diff --git a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
index cad6821e4..c2d3a33e4 100755
--- a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -775,6 +775,11 @@ main() {
   echo ""
   echo ""
   echo "Verifying we have the latest soup script."
+  if [ -f /usr/sbin/so-image-common ]; then
+    . /usr/sbin/so-image-common
+  else 
+    add_common
+  fi
   verify_latest_update_script
   echo ""
   set_os