diff --git a/desktop/misc/xdg-user-dirs/pspec.xml b/desktop/misc/xdg-user-dirs/pspec.xml
index 50fd723e4f..b0b942b217 100644
--- a/desktop/misc/xdg-user-dirs/pspec.xml
+++ b/desktop/misc/xdg-user-dirs/pspec.xml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
         <Description>xdg-user-dirs is a tool to help manage "well known" user directories like the desktop folder and the music folder. It also handles localization (i.e. translation) of the filenames.</Description>
         <Archive sha1sum="246cea7db52ef7e29774fa416981a548377de557" type="targz">http://user-dirs.freedesktop.org/releases/xdg-user-dirs-0.17.tar.gz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
+            <Dependency>gettext-devel</Dependency>
             <Dependency>docbook-xsl</Dependency>
             <Dependency>libxml2-devel</Dependency>
             <Dependency>libxslt-devel</Dependency>