diff --git a/build/dpkg-deps/depends b/build/dpkg-deps/depends
index a712d4a52..d53721f3f 100644
--- a/build/dpkg-deps/depends
+++ b/build/dpkg-deps/depends
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ qemu-guest-agent
 rsync
 samba-common-bin
 smartmontools
+socat
 sqlite3
 squashfs-tools
 sudo