diff --git a/setup/installer/windows/notes.rst b/setup/installer/windows/notes.rst
index a8ba41e8ff..545070f7ff 100644
--- a/setup/installer/windows/notes.rst
+++ b/setup/installer/windows/notes.rst
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ If there are no windows binaries already compiled for the version of python you
 
 Run the following command to install python dependencies::
 
-    easy_install --always-unzip -U ipython mechanize BeautifulSoup pyreadline python-dateutil dnspython
+    easy_install --always-unzip -U ipython mechanize pyreadline python-dateutil dnspython
+
+Install BeautifulSoup 3.0.x manually into site-packages (3.1.x parses broken HTML very poorly)
 
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