diff --git a/buildout.cfg b/buildout.cfg
index f8b196058ec4eddef91410278c7d257dc42d5350..898169b471169b4f4db5448cf662f0446e577125 100644
--- a/buildout.cfg
+++ b/buildout.cfg
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ eggs = alabaster
        pip
        psutil
        ptyprocess
-       psycopg2
+       psycopg2-binary
        Pygments
        pyparsing
        python-archive
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 677156969b785e9aa06081fcef3c9c2a3a6edd38..668d39a19147d616a39992645e81c915ea6d8efa 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ setup(
         "docutils",
         "Jinja2",
         "nose",
-        "psycopg2",
+        "psycopg2-binary",
         "pytz",
         "psutil",
         "setuptools",