diff --git a/debian/_base/applications/knowit/debian/control b/debian/_base/applications/knowit/debian/control
index 2d115eef0..148eb5dde 100644
--- a/debian/_base/applications/knowit/debian/control
+++ b/debian/_base/applications/knowit/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: tde
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net>
 XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Lorenzo Villani <arbiter@arbiterlab.net>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), cdbs, quilt, cmake, tdelibs14-trinity-dev
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), cdbs, quilt, cmake, intltool | gettext (>= 0.19~), tdelibs14-trinity-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.8.4
 Homepage: http://knowit.sourceforge.net/
 
diff --git a/ubuntu/_base/applications/knowit/debian/control b/ubuntu/_base/applications/knowit/debian/control
index 12fef43da..1abe58cb6 100644
--- a/ubuntu/_base/applications/knowit/debian/control
+++ b/ubuntu/_base/applications/knowit/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: tde
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net>
 XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Lorenzo Villani <arbiter@arbiterlab.net>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), cdbs, quilt, cmake, tdelibs14-trinity-dev
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), cdbs, quilt, cmake, intltool | gettext (>= 0.19~), tdelibs14-trinity-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.8.4
 Homepage: http://knowit.sourceforge.net/