diff --git a/appstream.spec b/appstream.spec
index 2496756..31ba80c 100644
--- a/appstream.spec
+++ b/appstream.spec
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ BuildRequires: pkgconfig(gobject-introspection-1.0)
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig(libcurl)
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig(libsoup-2.4)
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig(librsvg-2.0)
+BuildRequires: pkgconfig(libsystemd)
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig(libxml-2.0)
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig(lmdb)
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig(packagekit-glib2)