diff --git a/srcpkgs/Komikku/template b/srcpkgs/Komikku/template
index 2766be8f72d..56ebf39e3de 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/Komikku/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/Komikku/template
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ version=1.1.0
 revision=1
 wrksrc=Komikku-v${version}
 build_style=meson
-hostmakedepends="gettext glib-devel gobject-introspection pkg-config"
+hostmakedepends="gettext glib-devel gobject-introspection pkg-config
+ desktop-file-utils"
 makedepends="gtk4-devel libadwaita-devel"
 depends="gtk4 libadwaita libnotify libsecret python3-BeautifulSoup4
  python3-Pillow python3-Unidecode python3-cloudscraper python3-dateparser