diff --git a/scripts/setup-ubuntu.sh b/scripts/setup-ubuntu.sh
index e0f567f7c..ea9ba6ebc 100755
--- a/scripts/setup-ubuntu.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup-ubuntu.sh
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ PACKAGES+=" git" # Used by the neovim build.
 PACKAGES+=" gperf" # Used by the fontconfig build.
 PACKAGES+=" help2man"
 PACKAGES+=" intltool" # Used by qalc build.
+PACKAGES+=" libdbus-1-dev" # Used by dbus-glib build.
 PACKAGES+=" libglib2.0-dev" # Provides 'glib-genmarshal' which the glib build uses.
 PACKAGES+=" libtool-bin"
 PACKAGES+=" libncurses5-dev" # Used by mariadb for host build part.