diff --git a/rhizome/host/bin/prep_host.rb b/rhizome/host/bin/prep_host.rb
index d7c830f1d..c22859495 100755
--- a/rhizome/host/bin/prep_host.rb
+++ b/rhizome/host/bin/prep_host.rb
@@ -90,7 +90,9 @@
 
 # For qemu-image convert and mcopy for cloud-init with the nocloud
 # driver.
-r "apt-get -y install qemu-utils mtools"
+# acl is for setfacl, which is used to set permissions and not installed
+# by default in Leaseweb servers.
+r "apt-get -y install qemu-utils mtools acl"
 
 # We need nvme-cli to inspect installed NVMe cards in prod servers when
 # looking into I/O performance issues.