diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index de85b68d6..7e36c40c5 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 	    <echo message="&quot;quilt&quot; and &quot;build-essential&quot;!" />
 	    <echo message="" />
 	    <echo message="The following command will install all dependencies for you:" />
-	    <echo message="apt-get install debhelper ant debconf default-jdk libgmp3-dev po-debconf fakeroot build-essential quilt" />
+	    <echo message="apt-get install debhelper ant debconf default-jdk gettext libgmp3-dev po-debconf fakeroot build-essential quilt" />
 	    <echo message=" " />
 	    <echo message="Once the dependencies are installed, run &quot;ant debian&quot;"/>
 	    <echo message="to patch the source and build the packages." />
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index c5399dd2c..0a992e31a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~),
  ant,
  debconf,
  default-jdk,
+ gettext,
  libgmp3-dev, 
  po-debconf
 Build-Depends-Indep: tor-geoipdb