diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/texi2html/texi2html_5.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/texi2html/texi2html_5.0.bb
index ae64816f82..afd125b08f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/texi2html/texi2html_5.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/texi2html/texi2html_5.0.bb
@@ -27,3 +27,5 @@ do_install_append () {
 }
 
 FILES_${PN}-doc += "${datadir}/texinfo"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "perl"