diff --git a/net-analyzer/linkchecker/linkchecker-10.2.1.ebuild b/net-analyzer/linkchecker/linkchecker-10.2.1.ebuild
index eba67d15c6a41..832366f8fa284 100644
--- a/net-analyzer/linkchecker/linkchecker-10.2.1.ebuild
+++ b/net-analyzer/linkchecker/linkchecker-10.2.1.ebuild
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ BDEPEND="
 			dev-python/pyopenssl[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 			dev-python/pytest-xdist[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		')
+		sys-devel/gettext
 	)
 "