diff --git a/classes/config-in-skeleton.bbclass b/classes/config-in-skeleton.bbclass
index 33266be..72249ff 100644
--- a/classes/config-in-skeleton.bbclass
+++ b/classes/config-in-skeleton.bbclass
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@
 
 inherit allarch
 inherit setuptools
+inherit pythonnative
 
+DEPENDS += "python"
 SRC_URI += "git://github.com/openbmc/skeleton;subpath=configs"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/configs"
 
diff --git a/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/skeleton.bb b/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/skeleton.bb
index 9762792..4dc9dff 100644
--- a/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/skeleton.bb
+++ b/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/skeleton.bb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_skeleton_workbook ?= ""
 
-DEPENDS += "glib-2.0 systemd"
+DEPENDS += "glib-2.0 systemd python"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} += "python-subprocess python-compression libsystemd ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_skeleton_workbook}"
 SRC_URI += "git://github.com/openbmc/skeleton"