diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/attr/attr.inc b/meta/recipes-support/attr/attr.inc
index e9467d742f..c11034069c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/attr/attr.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/attr/attr.inc
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ DESCRIPTION = "utilities for manipulating filesystem extended attributes"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/attr/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 
+DEPENDS = "ncurses"
+
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+ & GPLv2+"
 LICENSE_${PN} = "GPLv2+"
 LICENSE_lib${PN} = "LGPLv2.1+"