diff --git a/recipes-core/images/core-image-ros.bb b/recipes-core/images/core-image-ros.bb
index 36c2149ccd40ae694708b5fb9a25767df422ffe1..59fa58bb01526dc0d81eae812d6bb4f1c67bf79b 100644
--- a/recipes-core/images/core-image-ros.bb
+++ b/recipes-core/images/core-image-ros.bb
@@ -24,4 +24,7 @@ create_python_easy_install_pth_file () {
 # create a custom hosts file
 ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "remove_packaging_data_files ; augment_hosts_setting_file ; create_python_easy_install_pth_file ; "
 
-IMAGE_INSTALL += "boost boost-dev packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh python-modules python-setuptools python-rospkg python-rosinstall git cmake python-empy python-pyyaml python-nose log4cxx log4cxx-dev libbz2-dev"
+IMAGE_INSTALL += "packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh git cmake \
+  boost boost-dev log4cxx log4cxx-dev libbz2-dev \
+  python-modules python-empy python-pyyaml python-nose \
+  python-setuptools python-rospkg python-vcstools python-rosinstall"
diff --git a/recipes-devtools/python/python-rosinstall_0.6.21.bb b/recipes-devtools/python/python-rosinstall_0.6.21.bb
index c4a2fe0a9a2b32bd4f967a32a93559a2ead0962c..13fcb83b57b43f244e9e6f10a0ebf7820083abca 100644
--- a/recipes-devtools/python/python-rosinstall_0.6.21.bb
+++ b/recipes-devtools/python/python-rosinstall_0.6.21.bb
@@ -10,5 +10,7 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7163106c93460c8d092c5e74749cefd3fc17295f3a06c4f041fe83a772
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/${SRCNAME}-${PV}"
 
+DEPENDS += "python-vcstools"
+
 inherit setuptools