diff --git a/sci-electronics/kicad/kicad-8.0.0.ebuild b/sci-electronics/kicad/kicad-8.0.0.ebuild
index 779a6ba220c58..66b5e2a9bbaf3 100644
--- a/sci-electronics/kicad/kicad-8.0.0.ebuild
+++ b/sci-electronics/kicad/kicad-8.0.0.ebuild
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 # Depend on opencascade:0 to get unslotted variant (so we know path to it), bug #833301
 # Depend wxGTK version needs to be limited due to switch from EGL to GLX, bug #911120
 COMMON_DEPEND="
+	app-crypt/libsecret
 	dev-db/unixODBC
 	dev-libs/boost:=[context,nls]
 	dev-libs/libgit2:=
diff --git a/sci-electronics/kicad/kicad-9999.ebuild b/sci-electronics/kicad/kicad-9999.ebuild
index 779a6ba220c58..66b5e2a9bbaf3 100644
--- a/sci-electronics/kicad/kicad-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sci-electronics/kicad/kicad-9999.ebuild
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 # Depend on opencascade:0 to get unslotted variant (so we know path to it), bug #833301
 # Depend wxGTK version needs to be limited due to switch from EGL to GLX, bug #911120
 COMMON_DEPEND="
+	app-crypt/libsecret
 	dev-db/unixODBC
 	dev-libs/boost:=[context,nls]
 	dev-libs/libgit2:=