diff --git a/scripts/checkdeps b/scripts/checkdeps
index ca90855acc..b23661bc18 100755
--- a/scripts/checkdeps
+++ b/scripts/checkdeps
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ case $1 in
     deps_pkg="wget"
     ;;
   build)
-    deps="bash bc gcc g++ sed patch touch tar bzip2 gzip perl cp gawk makeinfo gperf cvs zip unzip mkfontscale mkfontdir diff xsltproc java"
+    deps="bash bc gcc g++ sed patch touch tar bzip2 gzip perl cp gawk makeinfo gperf cvs zip unzip mkfontscale mkfontdir bdftopcf diff xsltproc java"
     deps_pkg="bash bc gcc g++ sed patch fileutils tar bzip2 gzip perl coreutils gawk texinfo gperf cvs zip unzip xutils xfonts-utils diff xsltproc default-jre"
     files="/usr/include/stdio.h /usr/include/ncurses.h"
     files_pkg="libc6-dev libncurses5-dev"