diff --git a/srcpkgs/netsurf/template b/srcpkgs/netsurf/template
index 449d76b704c..63a95bcab08 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/netsurf/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/netsurf/template
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ pkgname=netsurf
 version=3.9
 revision=1
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config gperf flex nsgenbind gdk-pixbuf-devel
- perl-HTML-Parser glib-devel xxd"
+ tar perl-HTML-Parser glib-devel xxd"
 makedepends="
  libidn-devel libmng-devel libxml2-devel libcurl-devel lcms-devel libwebp-devel
  libcss-devel libnsbmp-devel libnsgif-devel libutf8proc-devel