diff --git a/sci-libs/vtk/vtk-8.2.0.ebuild b/sci-libs/vtk/vtk-8.2.0.ebuild
index ee000cf9d8371..3c32a015ddced 100644
--- a/sci-libs/vtk/vtk-8.2.0.ebuild
+++ b/sci-libs/vtk/vtk-8.2.0.ebuild
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	dev-libs/expat
 	dev-libs/jsoncpp:=
 	dev-libs/libxml2:2
+	dev-libs/pugixml
 	>=media-libs/freetype-2.5.4
 	>=media-libs/libharu-2.3.0-r2
 	media-libs/libpng:0=