diff --git a/packages/gawk/build.sh b/packages/gawk/build.sh
index 1f9e77bb6..1b6687c03 100644
--- a/packages/gawk/build.sh
+++ b/packages/gawk/build.sh
@@ -2,12 +2,13 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Programming language designed for text processing"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=5.0.1
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=2
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=3
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=8e4e86f04ed789648b66f757329743a0d6dfb5294c3b91b756a474f1ce05a794
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-support, libgmp, libmpfr, readline"
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="gawk-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_REPLACES="gawk-dev"
+TERMUX_PKG_ESSENTIAL=yes
 TERMUX_PKG_RM_AFTER_INSTALL="bin/gawk-* bin/igawk share/man/man1/igawk.1"
 
 termux_step_pre_configure() {