diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2a75c2c427..19367141cf 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ Standards-Version: 3.7.2
 
 Package: yacy
 Architecture: all
-Depends: openjdk-7-jre-headless, sudo, debconf
+Depends: openjdk-7-jre-headless | openjdk-8-jre-headless, sudo, debconf
+Suggests: curl | wget
 Description: Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine
  YaCy is a Java-based peer-to-peer search engine.
  It provides a personal web search engine, which is