diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 9fc91d4..c2ff670 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: XtreemFS Project <xtreemfs-users@googlegroups.com>
 Homepage: http://www.xtreemfs.org/
 Standards-Version: 3.7.2
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), cmake (>= 2.6), libfuse-dev (>= 2.6), libssl-dev (>= 0.9), libattr-dev (>= 2), libboost-system-dev, libboost-thread-dev, libboost-program-options-dev, libboost-regex-dev
+
 
 Package: xtreemfs-client
 Architecture: any