diff --git a/source/_components/media_player.firetv.markdown b/source/_components/media_player.firetv.markdown
index 7561b7bbe8d..98f6afe2021 100644
--- a/source/_components/media_player.firetv.markdown
+++ b/source/_components/media_player.firetv.markdown
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Steps to configure your Amazon Fire TV stick with Home Assistant:
   - From the main (Launcher) screen, select Settings.
   - Select System > About > Network.
 - `pip install firetv[firetv-server]` into a Python 2.x environment
+  - If installed on Debian Jessie then the libssl-dev package is needed. Install it with `apt-get install libssl-dev`
 - `firetv-server -d <fire tv device IP>:5555`, background the process
 - Configure Home Assistant as follows: