diff --git a/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin_git.bb b/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin_git.bb
index 1452fd3221cd36fb39671d45747a9344b586a9be..66f3e783eee65c15861e568fc393cc0daf1df805 100644
--- a/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin_git.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ LICENSE = "BSD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://package.xml;beginline=7;endline=7;md5=d566ef916e9dedc494f5f793a6690ba5"
 
 DEPENDS = "cmake python-empy python-catkin-pkg"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "python-catkin-pkg python-argparse python-multiprocessing \
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "cmake packagegroup-core-buildessential \
+    python-catkin-pkg python-argparse python-multiprocessing \
     python-shell python-subprocess python-xml"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/ros/${BPN}.git \