diff --git a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/skeleton.bb b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/skeleton.bb
index a48f5b5..ba873aa 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/skeleton.bb
+++ b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/skeleton.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 inherit obmc-phosphor-sensor-mgmt
 inherit obmc-phosphor-system-mgmt
 
-DEPENDS += "glib-2.0"
+DEPENDS += "glib-2.0 systemd"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} += "python-subprocess python-compression libsystemd"
 SRC_URI += "git://github.com/openbmc/skeleton"