diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome/default.nix
index 393251efc1f..22f67761dc6 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome/default.nix
@@ -319,6 +319,7 @@ rec {
       pkgconfig perl perlXMLParser gtk GConf libglade libgnomeui
       startupnotification gnomevfs vte gnomedocutils gettext which
       scrollkeeper python libxml2Python libxslt intltool
+      dbus_glib
     ];
 
     configureFlags = "--disable-scrollkeeper";