diff --git a/debian/_base/applications/knights/debian/control b/debian/_base/applications/knights/debian/control
index 579d06f02..daf511b67 100644
--- a/debian/_base/applications/knights/debian/control
+++ b/debian/_base/applications/knights/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net>
 XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Jose Carlos Medeiros <debian@psabs.com.br>
 Uploaders: Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), cdbs, quilt, cmake, tdelibs14-trinity-dev
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), cdbs, quilt, cmake, intltool | gettext (>= 0.19~), tdelibs14-trinity-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.8.4
 Homepage: http://knights.sourceforge.net/
 
diff --git a/ubuntu/_base/applications/knights/debian/control b/ubuntu/_base/applications/knights/debian/control
index 5b639aed6..4a2759660 100644
--- a/ubuntu/_base/applications/knights/debian/control
+++ b/ubuntu/_base/applications/knights/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net>
 XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Jose Carlos Medeiros <debian@psabs.com.br>
 Uploaders: Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), cdbs, quilt, cmake, tdelibs14-trinity-dev
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), cdbs, quilt, cmake, intltool | gettext (>= 0.19~), tdelibs14-trinity-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.8.4
 Homepage: http://knights.sourceforge.net/