use platform.dist() to detect ubuntu instead of subprocessing out to lsb_release

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ae0ae5c6fa45f12bdaada2828683b553dba7bc0c..803ae8859de1505fbcfa149b5dcafcdc54213104 100644 (file)
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 """
 
 from distutils.core import setup
-import os, sys, subprocess
+import os, sys, platform
 SHARE = 'share'
 
 # detect linux distribution
-distro = subprocess.check_output(['lsb_release', '-i']).split()[-1]
+distro = platform.dist()[0]
 
 def file_list(path):
     files = []