diff --git a/scripts/checkdeps b/scripts/checkdeps
index 9ed5c8b0bd..26fa0245f2 100755
--- a/scripts/checkdeps
+++ b/scripts/checkdeps
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ case $1 in
   build)
     deps="gcc g++ sed patch touch tar bzip2 gzip lzma perl cp gawk makeinfo gettext autopoint gperf autoconf automake m4 cvs zip unzip mkfontscale libtool diff xsltproc msgfmt"
     deps_pkg="gcc g++ sed patch fileutils tar bzip2 gzip lzma perl coreutils gawk texinfo gettext gettext-devel gperf autoconf automake m4 cvs zip unzip xutils libtool diff xsltproc gettext"
-    files="/usr/lib/libc.a /usr/include/stdio.h /usr/include/zlib.h /usr/include/ncurses.h"
-    files_pkg="glibc-static libc6-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev"
+    files="/usr/lib/libc.a /usr/include/stdio.h /usr/include/ncurses.h"
+    files_pkg="glibc-static libc6-dev libncurses5-dev"
     ;;
   qemu)
     if [ ! `which qemu` ]; then