diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d0e3de39..5601315c 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Maintainer: Kiwix team <kiwix@kiwix.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
                libzim-dev (>= 9.0.0), libzim-dev (<< 10.0.0),
                libkiwix-dev (>= 13.0.0), libkiwix-dev (<< 14.0.0),
+               cmake,
                libdocopt-dev,
                meson,
                pkg-config,