diff --git a/package/sound-theme-freedesktop/sound-theme-freedesktop.mk b/package/sound-theme-freedesktop/sound-theme-freedesktop.mk
index d81c207276..3a1a162ee9 100644
--- a/package/sound-theme-freedesktop/sound-theme-freedesktop.mk
+++ b/package/sound-theme-freedesktop/sound-theme-freedesktop.mk
@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ SOUND_THEME_FREEDESKTOP_SITE = \
 	http://people.freedesktop.org/~mccann/dist
 SOUND_THEME_FREEDESKTOP_SOURCE = \
 	sound-theme-freedesktop-$(SOUND_THEME_FREEDESKTOP_VERSION).tar.bz2
+SOUND_THEME_FREEDESKTOP_DEPENDENCIES = host-intltool
 
 $(eval $(call AUTOTARGETS))