diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 503212498..0a5e722fb 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Depends:
  ${misc:Depends},
  debootstrap,
 Recommends:
+ apt-utils,
  cpio,
  wget,
  live-boot-doc,