diff --git a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/package.mk b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/package.mk
index 0416893daa..c123f219af 100644
--- a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/package.mk
+++ b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/package.mk
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="fd9bf528922b3829a91913b89a1858c58a0b24271a7b5f529923aa9ea12fa4cf"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.alsa-project.org/"
 PKG_URL="ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/alsa-utils-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain alsa-lib ncurses"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain alsa-lib ncurses systemd"
 PKG_LONGDESC="This package includes the utilities for ALSA, like alsamixer, aplay, arecord, alsactl, iecset and speaker-test."
 
 PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--disable-alsaconf \