diff --git a/x11-plugins/purple-mm-sms/purple-mm-sms-0.1.7.ebuild b/x11-plugins/purple-mm-sms/purple-mm-sms-0.1.7.ebuild
index 290ecaf..defb9e6 100755
--- a/x11-plugins/purple-mm-sms/purple-mm-sms-0.1.7.ebuild
+++ b/x11-plugins/purple-mm-sms/purple-mm-sms-0.1.7.ebuild
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64"
 
 DEPEND="
 	net-misc/modemmanager
+	net-im/pidgin
 "
 
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"