diff --git a/docs/admin/install.rst b/docs/admin/install.rst
index fa3ba8018..0a7d506d2 100644
--- a/docs/admin/install.rst
+++ b/docs/admin/install.rst
@@ -49,6 +49,17 @@ After installation, you should have a ``moin`` command available, try it:
 
  moin --help
 
+If you are running Python 3.12.+ and get a traceback with::
+
+ ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'
+
+then you must install setuptools manually::
+
+ pip install setuptools
+
+and retry `moin --help`
+
+
 Creating a wiki instance
 ========================