diff --git a/source/getting-started/installation-virtualenv.markdown b/source/getting-started/installation-virtualenv.markdown
index ddd4d0b1b5d..c82aaa40194 100644
--- a/source/getting-started/installation-virtualenv.markdown
+++ b/source/getting-started/installation-virtualenv.markdown
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Virtualenvs are pretty easy to setup. This example will walk through one method
 ```bash
 $ sudo apt-get update
 $ sudo apt-get upgrade
-$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
+$ sudo apt-get install python-pip python3-dev
 $ sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv
 ```