diff --git a/desktop/gnome/base/gconf/pspec.xml b/desktop/gnome/base/gconf/pspec.xml
index 0eadbb33f8..0db26678ea 100755
--- a/desktop/gnome/base/gconf/pspec.xml
+++ b/desktop/gnome/base/gconf/pspec.xml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
             <Dependency>intltool</Dependency>
             <Dependency>python-lxml</Dependency>
             <Dependency>python-six</Dependency>
+            <Dependency>gnome-common</Dependency>
         </BuildDependencies>
         <Patches>
             <Patch level="1">01_xml-gettext-domain.patch</Patch>