diff --git a/setupegg.py b/setupegg.py
index 0d51b3eeb47e..7552ed3787b6 100644
--- a/setupegg.py
+++ b/setupegg.py
@@ -2,7 +2,19 @@
 Poor man's setuptools script...
 """
 
+import os
+import sys
 from setuptools import setup
+
+# Setupegg assumes the install tree and source tree are exactly the same. Since
+# this is not the case, symlink the correct dateutil dir depending on which
+# version of python is used
+if not os.path.isdir('lib/dateutil'):
+    if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
+        os.symlink('dateutil_py3', 'lib/dateutil')
+    else:
+        os.symlink('dateutil_py2', 'lib/dateutil')
+
 execfile('setup.py',
          {'additional_params' :
           {'namespace_packages' : ['mpl_toolkits'],