diff --git a/README b/README
index e82ef0d9..491e96a9 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ In order to build awesome itself, you need header files and libs of:
   - cairo
   - pango and pangocairo
   - GTK+ or Imlib2 (use --with-imlib2 with ./configure)
+  - dbus
 
 In order to build the awesome man pages, you need these tools:
   - asciidoc (recent version)