diff --git a/pkg/dpkg/control b/pkg/dpkg/control
index 9b4347c..cbdcd9c 100644
--- a/pkg/dpkg/control
+++ b/pkg/dpkg/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.5.2
 
 Package: gbootroot
 Architecture: all
-Depends: libgtk-perl (>= 0.7002), ash, file, binutils, bzip2, lilo
+Depends:  ${perl:Depends}, perl-modules, libgtk-perl (>= 0.7002), ash, file, binutils, bzip2, lilo
 Recommends: dswim
 Description: Boot/Root Filesystem Distribution testing and creation.
  BootRoot makes the construction and development of distributions fun and 
diff --git a/pkg/dpkg/rules b/pkg/dpkg/rules
index cf289be..2864518 100755
--- a/pkg/dpkg/rules
+++ b/pkg/dpkg/rules
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ binary-arch: build install
 	dh_fixperms
 #	dh_makeshlibs
 	dh_installdeb
-#	dh_perl
+	dh_perl
 #	dh_shlibdeps
 	dh_gencontrol
 	dh_md5sums