diff --git a/config/config.yaml b/config/config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..24ec9c31e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+installer-options:
+  pip:
+    additional-flags: user
+    sudo: false
+    command-options: --user
+
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 59d6d1a9db..1c453c7107 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
     test_suite='nose.collector',
     test_requires=['mock', 'nose >= 1.0'],
     scripts=['scripts/rosdep', 'scripts/rosdep-source'],
+    data_files=[('etc/ros/rosdep', ['config/config.yaml'])],
     author='Tully Foote, Ken Conley',
     author_email='tfoote@osrfoundation.org',
     url='http://wiki.ros.org/rosdep',