diff --git a/debian/_base/applications/abakus/debian/control b/debian/_base/applications/abakus/debian/control
index a0d907f93..52a424d49 100644
--- a/debian/_base/applications/abakus/debian/control
+++ b/debian/_base/applications/abakus/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: tde
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net>
 XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Steffen Joeris <steffen.joeris@skolelinux.de>
-Build-Depends: autotools-dev, debhelper (>= 9~), quilt, cdbs (>= 0.4.0), cmake, imagemagick, tdelibs14-trinity-dev, chrpath, bison, flex
+Build-Depends: autotools-dev, debhelper (>= 9~), quilt, cdbs (>= 0.4.0), cmake, intltool | gettext (>= 0.19~), imagemagick, tdelibs14-trinity-dev, chrpath, bison, flex
 Standards-Version: 3.8.4
 
 Package: abakus-trinity
diff --git a/ubuntu/_base/applications/abakus/debian/control b/ubuntu/_base/applications/abakus/debian/control
index 0f4aff826..933e73bcf 100644
--- a/ubuntu/_base/applications/abakus/debian/control
+++ b/ubuntu/_base/applications/abakus/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: tde
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net>
 XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Steffen Joeris <steffen.joeris@skolelinux.de>
-Build-Depends: autotools-dev, debhelper (>= 9~), quilt, cdbs (>= 0.4.0), cmake, imagemagick, tdelibs14-trinity-dev, chrpath, bison, flex
+Build-Depends: autotools-dev, debhelper (>= 9~), quilt, cdbs (>= 0.4.0), cmake, intltool | gettext (>= 0.19~), imagemagick, tdelibs14-trinity-dev, chrpath, bison, flex
 Standards-Version: 3.8.4
 
 Package: abakus-trinity