diff --git a/srcpkgs/libreoffice/template b/srcpkgs/libreoffice/template
index dc8f3c27d67..90716364482 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libreoffice/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libreoffice/template
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ _xdeps="zlib-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel clucene-devel expat-devel xmlsec1-devel
  libwebp-devel fontconfig-devel libcmis-devel
  gobject-introspection libgirepository-devel libglib-devel"
 hostmakedepends="automake flex gperf hyphen icu libtool openldap which gettext
- perl-Archive-Zip pkg-config sane unzip zip python3-setuptools
+ tar perl-Archive-Zip pkg-config sane unzip zip python3-setuptools
  fontforge python3-lxml qt6-base gnupg glib-devel
  $(vopt_if java 'openjdk17 apache-ant beanshell rhino hsqldb1.8.0')"
 makedepends="$_xdeps openssl-devel libXrender-devel libbluetooth-devel
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ post_patch() {
 
 do_configure() {
 	local opts
-	local bopts=
+	local bopts=--with-lang=en-US
 
 	# the build system tries to call curl or wget, we can catch any invocations here and add them to distfiles
 	ln -sf /bin/false ${XBPS_WRAPPERDIR}/curl