diff --git a/localhost-deploy.sh b/localhost-deploy.sh
index f093c49..3e31412 100755
--- a/localhost-deploy.sh
+++ b/localhost-deploy.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@
 #
 # Distributed under terms of the MIT license.
 #
-
+set -e
+if ! command -v ansible > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+	printf "Installing Ansible and related packages\n"
+	sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-setuptools -y
+	sudo pip3 install ansible
+fi
 ansible-playbook desktop.yml --ask-vault-pass --ask-become-pass