diff --git a/desktop/gnome/base/libbonobo/pspec.xml b/desktop/gnome/base/libbonobo/pspec.xml
index 3d42bf934d..ca4d78b05b 100644
--- a/desktop/gnome/base/libbonobo/pspec.xml
+++ b/desktop/gnome/base/libbonobo/pspec.xml
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
             <Dependency>libxml2-devel</Dependency>
             <Dependency>flex</Dependency>
             <Dependency>grep</Dependency>
+            <Dependency>popt-devel</Dependency>
             <Dependency>intltool</Dependency>
             <Dependency>perl</Dependency>
             <Dependency>gettext-devel</Dependency>