diff --git a/scripts/install-essentials b/scripts/install-essentials
index 77c6c61..3e2c890 100755
--- a/scripts/install-essentials
+++ b/scripts/install-essentials
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ apt-get install -y \
 	libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libicu-dev \
 	logrotate python-docutils pkg-config cmake nodejs \
 	libkrb5-dev postgresql-client mysql-client unzip \
+	libre2-dev \
 
 echo deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch.list
 apt-get update -yqqq