diff --git a/scripts/install-essentials b/scripts/install-essentials
index 3e2c890..ffbf14e 100755
--- a/scripts/install-essentials
+++ b/scripts/install-essentials
@@ -11,7 +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 \
+	libre2-dev gettext \
 
 echo deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch.list
 apt-get update -yqqq