diff --git a/setup/so-functions b/setup/so-functions
index ee6fcbc89..2db632572 100755
--- a/setup/so-functions
+++ b/setup/so-functions
@@ -1029,6 +1029,7 @@ saltify() {
 
     if [ $INSTALLTYPE == 'MASTER' ] || [ $INSTALLTYPE == 'EVAL' ] || [ $INSTALLTYPE == 'HELIXSENSOR' ] || [ $INSTALLTYPE == 'MASTERSEARCH' ]; then
       reserve_group_ids
+	  yum -y install epel-release
       yum -y install wget https://repo.saltstack.com/py3/redhat/salt-py3-repo-latest-2.el7.noarch.rpm
       cp /etc/yum.repos.d/salt-py3-latest.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/salt-py3-2019-2.repo
       sed -i 's/latest/2019.2/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/salt-py3-2019-2.repo