diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 43764632..13688d65 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.0.0),
                libnymea-mqtt-dev (>= 0.1.2),
                libnymea-networkmanager-dev (>= 0.4.0),
                libnymea-remoteproxyclient-dev,
+               libpython3-dev,
                libqt5websockets5-dev,
                libqt5bluetooth5,
                libqt5sql5-sqlite,