diff --git a/sci-visualization/kst/kst-2.0.8.ebuild b/sci-visualization/kst/kst-2.0.8.ebuild
index 6f068a906ed2a..d5cfd61e3676a 100644
--- a/sci-visualization/kst/kst-2.0.8.ebuild
+++ b/sci-visualization/kst/kst-2.0.8.ebuild
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	sci-libs/netcdf-cxx:3
 "
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-qt/linguist-tools:5
 	test? ( dev-qt/qttest:5 )
 "