problem with installing poretools on linux

[kilaza]

Kindly help. I am trying to install poretools. I have clone from github and now getting an error when setting up ( python setup.py install) as per installation procedure.
The error says " no module setuptools
i.e.
samson@compute-002:/cbio/users/samson/tools/poretools/poretools$ python setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 2, in
from setuptools import setup
ImportError: No module named setuptools

Any help is highly appreciated.