diff --git a/recipes-containers/criu/criu_git.bb b/recipes-containers/criu/criu_git.bb
index 29f136ac..849a8328 100644
--- a/recipes-containers/criu/criu_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-containers/criu/criu_git.bb
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ SRC_URI = "git://github.com/xemul/criu.git;protocol=git \
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(x86_64|arm|aarch64).*-linux"
 
 DEPENDS += "libnl libcap protobuf-c-native protobuf-c util-linux-native libbsd"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "bash"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"