diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/lmbench/lmbench_3.0-a9.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/lmbench/lmbench_3.0-a9.bb
index 38e0d2eb88..0586d72f2d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/lmbench/lmbench_3.0-a9.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/lmbench/lmbench_3.0-a9.bb
@@ -74,5 +74,5 @@ pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
     fi
 }
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "debianutils"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "perl"
 FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/lmbench ${libdir}/lmbench"