diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 4e13e002e7..1524797484 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ Build-Depends:
 	libghc-gnutls-dev (>= 0.1.4),
 	libghc-xml-types-dev,
 	libghc-async-dev,
+	libghc-http-dev,
 	ikiwiki,
 	perlmagick,
 	git,
diff --git a/doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn b/doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn
index 4c48d7502c..d62af115e7 100644
--- a/doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn
+++ b/doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ quite a lot.
   * [dns](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dns)
   * [xml-types](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xml-types)
   * [async](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/async)
+  * [HTTP](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HTTP)
 * Shell commands
   * [git](http://git-scm.com/)
   * [xargs](http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/findutils/)