diff --git a/libgda.spec b/libgda.spec
index ebf1882..c57cc4e 100644
--- a/libgda.spec
+++ b/libgda.spec
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ BuildRoot:        %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 BuildRequires:    pkgconfig >= 0.8
 BuildRequires:    glib2-devel >= 2.0.0
 BuildRequires:    libxslt-devel >= 1.0.9
+BuildRequires:    ncurses-devel
 BuildRequires:    libxml2-devel readline-devel db4-devel gamin-devel
 BuildRequires:    gtk-doc scrollkeeper gettext flex bison perl(XML::Parser)
 # note we do not provide these, they no longer exist
@@ -557,6 +558,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %changelog
 * Mon Sep 22 2008 Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> - 3.0.1-6.1
 - Back into using embedded sqlite for el5
+- Add ncurses-devel dependency, that's missing from readline-devel
 
 * Thu Dec 06 2007 Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject dot org> - 3.0.1-6
 - Rebuild for deps