diff --git a/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr/meta b/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr/meta
index b0bd9d2102..166773e3d9 100644
--- a/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr/meta
+++ b/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr/meta
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.tvdr.de"
 PKG_URL="ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS="fontconfig freetype libcap"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain fontconfig freetype libcap libjpeg-turbo bzip2"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain fontconfig freetype libcap libjpeg-turbo bzip2 ncurses"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="multimedia"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="vdr: A powerful DVB TV application"