diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc
index c7e3b572..193dec9d 100644
--- a/README.asciidoc
+++ b/README.asciidoc
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ Building on Ubuntu 16.04.
 Make sure you have .local/bin in your path to make the kak binary available from your shell.
 
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-sudo apt install libncursesw5-dev
+sudo apt install libncursesw5-dev pkg-config
 git clone https://github.com/mawww/kakoune.git && cd kakoune/src
 make
 PREFIX=$HOME/.local make install