diff --git a/packaging/debian/control b/packaging/debian/control
index 86b8341286f..a735c66a742 100644
--- a/packaging/debian/control
+++ b/packaging/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Maintainer: Jozsef Makai <jozsef.makai@cern.ch>
 Section: misc
 Priority: optional
 Standards-Version: 3.9.3
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), cmake (>=3.3.0), zlib1g-dev, libfuse-dev, python-dev, libssl-dev, libxml2-dev, ncurses-dev, libkrb5-dev, libreadline-dev, libsystemd-dev, selinux-policy-dev, systemd
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), cmake (>=3.3.0), zlib1g-dev, libfuse-dev, python-dev, libssl-dev, libxml2-dev, ncurses-dev, libkrb5-dev, libreadline-dev, libsystemd-dev, selinux-policy-dev, libcurl-dev, systemd
 Homepage: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd
 Vcs-Git: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd
diff --git a/packaging/rhel/xrootd.spec.in b/packaging/rhel/xrootd.spec.in
index a502e50ff58..5f6d5375eee 100644
--- a/packaging/rhel/xrootd.spec.in
+++ b/packaging/rhel/xrootd.spec.in
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ BuildRequires: libxml2-devel
 BuildRequires: krb5-devel
 BuildRequires: zlib-devel
 BuildRequires: ncurses-devel
+BuildRequires: libcurl-devel
 
 BuildRequires: python2-devel
 %if %{?fedora}%{!?fedora:0} >= 13