diff --git a/srcpkgs/spice-vdagent/template b/srcpkgs/spice-vdagent/template
index 1feb735b2bc..9d0b494ef4a 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/spice-vdagent/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/spice-vdagent/template
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
 makedepends="libglib-devel dbus-devel libXfixes-devel libXrandr-devel
- libXinerama-devel libpciaccess-devel spice-protocol desktop-file-utils"
+ libXinerama-devel libpciaccess-devel spice-protocol desktop-file-utils
+ alsa-lib-devel"
 depends="dbus"
 short_desc="Spice agent for Linux"
 homepage="http://spice-space.org/"