diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ host_vars/*
 # build products...
 *.py[co]
 .vault_password
+/pythonenv/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a217019d..3ded8c58 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ In this repository are playbooks for deploying services on Freifunk Bremen machi
 
 ## Dependencies
 
+With PyPI:
+
+    virtualenv pythonenv
+    source pythonenv/bin/activate
+    pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+Or as Debian/Ubuntu packages:
+
     apt-get install python-dnspython ca-certificates
 
 ## Playbooks
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8f87fc04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+ansible==4.7.0
+ansible-core==2.11.6
+cffi==1.15.0
+cryptography==35.0.0
+dnspython==2.1.0
+ipcalc==1.99.0
+Jinja2==3.0.2
+MarkupSafe==2.0.1
+packaging==21.0
+pycparser==2.20
+pyparsing==2.4.7
+PyYAML==6.0
+resolvelib==0.5.4
+six==1.16.0