diff --git a/extra/python/depends b/extra/python/depends
index 82849f0a..b8e2f9ed 100644
--- a/extra/python/depends
+++ b/extra/python/depends
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 bzip2
 expat
 libffi
+ncurses
 openssl
 sqlite
 zlib