diff --git a/meta/packages/alsa/alsa-tools_1.0.20.bb b/meta/packages/alsa/alsa-tools_1.0.20.bb
index eed86e5dba..789b68e438 100644
--- a/meta/packages/alsa/alsa-tools_1.0.20.bb
+++ b/meta/packages/alsa/alsa-tools_1.0.20.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ BROKEN = "1"
 DESCRIPTION = "Alsa Tools"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 LICENSE = "GPL"
-DEPENDS = "alsa-lib"
+DEPENDS = "alsa-lib ncurses"
 
 SRC_URI = "ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/tools/alsa-tools-${PV}.tar.bz2"