diff --git a/srcpkgs/inkscape/template b/srcpkgs/inkscape/template
index 8506b71d353..745c8bc6070 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/inkscape/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/inkscape/template
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ makedepends="aspell-devel cairomm-devel double-conversion-devel gc-devel
  hunspell-devel libatomic_ops-devel libcdr-devel libgomp-devel libsoup-devel
  libvisio-devel libwpd-devel libwpd-devel libwpg-devel libxslt-devel pango-devel
  poppler-devel poppler-glib-devel potrace-devel gtest-devel gtksourceview4-devel
- lib2geom-devel popt-devel readline-devel"
+ lib2geom-devel popt-devel readline-devel libxml2-devel"
 depends="desktop-file-utils hicolor-icon-theme python3-Pillow python3-appdirs
  python3-cssselect python3-lxml python3-numpy python3-requests python3-scour"
 checkdepends="$depends GraphicsMagick ImageMagick cantarell-fonts gtest-devel"