diff --git a/packaging/irods_microservice_plugins_curl.list.template b/packaging/irods_microservice_plugins_curl.list.template
index 4f40f15..7f64e6e 100644
--- a/packaging/irods_microservice_plugins_curl.list.template
+++ b/packaging/irods_microservice_plugins_curl.list.template
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 %description The integrated Rule-Oriented Data System
 %version TEMPLATE_PLUGINVERSION TEMPLATE_PLUGINVERSIONINT
 
+%requires irods-runtime
+
 %if DEB
 %requires libc6
 %requires libcurl3