diff --git a/gnupg/_parsers.py b/gnupg/_parsers.py
index dd3ddaa..c625d75 100644
--- a/gnupg/_parsers.py
+++ b/gnupg/_parsers.py
@@ -25,12 +25,9 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 try:
-    # py2.7+ comes with collections.OrderedDict
-    from collections import OrderedDict
+    import collections
 except ImportError:
-    # py2.6 doesn't; this is an equivalent;
-    # `pip install ordereddict`
-    from ordereddict import OrderedDict
+    import ordereddict as collections
 
 import re
 
@@ -1029,7 +1026,7 @@ class ImportResult(object):
     _fields = '''count no_user_id imported imported_rsa unchanged
     n_uids n_subk n_sigs n_revoc sec_read sec_imported sec_dups
     not_imported'''.split()
-    _counts = OrderedDict(
+    _counts = collections.OrderedDict(
         zip(_fields, [int(0) for x in range(len(_fields))]) )
 
     #: A list of strings containing the fingerprints of the GnuPG keyIDs
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3b4154d..90b1e8e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 import setuptools
+import sys
 import os
 import versioneer
 
@@ -37,6 +38,12 @@ __contact__ = 'isis@patternsinthevoid.net'
 __url__ = 'https://github.com/isislovecruft/python-gnupg'
 
 
+def python26():
+    """Returns True if we're running on Python2.6."""
+    if sys.version[:3] == "2.6":
+        return True
+    return False
+
 def get_requirements():
     """Extract the list of requirements from our requirements.txt.
 
@@ -64,6 +71,10 @@ def get_requirements():
     except (IOError, OSError) as error:
         print(error)
 
+    if python26():
+        # Required to make `collections.OrderedDict` available on Python<=2.6
+        requirements.append('ordereddict==1.1#a0ed854ee442051b249bfad0f638bbec')
+
     return requirements, links