diff --git a/roles/slurm-common/tasks/main.yml b/roles/slurm-common/tasks/main.yml
index 91887303d3739e3fa112be6a93bac3e23b621d86..99a64ff3d1fd22fff2ba2efed0aaeaf7c0eed961 100644
--- a/roles/slurm-common/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/slurm-common/tasks/main.yml
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
     - perl
     - libdbi-perl
     - lua5.2
+    - liblua5.2-dev
     - hwloc
     - libhwloc-dev
   when: ansible_os_family == "Debian"