diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/nushell/nushell_0.114.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/nushell/nushell_0.114.1.bb
index 58205ee8c5..41f2bd87f4 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/nushell/nushell_0.114.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/nushell/nushell_0.114.1.bb
@@ -10,12 +10,14 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
     file://LICENSE;md5=ea22f3cfd911b3519505220cfc0ce542 \
 "
 
+DEPENDS = "libgit2 sqlite3"
+
 SRC_URI = "crate://crates.io/nu/${PV};name=nu"
 SRC_URI[nu.sha256sum] = "a840c40450e4ab0b95c81aa3ef965f31a5da47f6e6823f00da5edfe9fcdf05c9"
 
 S = "${CARGO_VENDORING_DIRECTORY}/nu-${PV}"
 
-inherit cargo cargo-update-recipe-crates
+inherit cargo cargo-update-recipe-crates pkgconfig
 
 require ${BPN}-crates.inc