diff --git a/documentation/poky.ent b/documentation/poky.ent
index 4a5dcb0906..32d498f09b 100644
--- a/documentation/poky.ent
+++ b/documentation/poky.ent
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
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 <!ENTITY UBUNTU_HOST_PACKAGES_ESSENTIAL "gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib \
      build-essential chrpath socat cpio python python3 python3-pip python3-pexpect \
-     xz-utils debianutils">
+     xz-utils debianutils iputils-ping">
 <!ENTITY FEDORA_HOST_PACKAGES_ESSENTIAL "gawk make wget tar bzip2 gzip python3 unzip perl patch \
      diffutils diffstat git cpp gcc gcc-c++ glibc-devel texinfo chrpath \
      ccache perl-Data-Dumper perl-Text-ParseWords perl-Thread-Queue perl-bignum socat \