diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index a6bed66..cca03e8 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Architecture: all
 Depends:
  ${python:Depends},
  ${misc:Depends},
+ mint-common,
  python (>= 2.4), python (<< 3),
  python-apt,
  python-configobj,