diff --git a/docbook2X.spec b/docbook2X.spec
index 11f0b69..8783ccc 100644
--- a/docbook2X.spec
+++ b/docbook2X.spec
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Source0:        http://downloads.sourceforge.net/docbook2x/docbook2X-%{version}.
 
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 
-BuildRequires:  perl perl-generators libxslt openjade texinfo %{_bindir}/sgml2xml
+BuildRequires:  perl-interpreter perl-generators libxslt openjade texinfo %{_bindir}/sgml2xml
 # required by the perl -c calls during build
 BuildRequires:  perl(XML::SAX::ParserFactory)
 # rpmlint isn't happy with libxslt, but we need xsltproc