diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 91f5b990..d0e3de39 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),
+               libdocopt-dev,
                meson,
                pkg-config,
 Standards-Version: 4.5.0