diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 853dc3e99..b6c99a864 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -24,6 +24,6 @@ Description: The future of computational social contracts. Dev Files.
 
 Package: alethzero
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libethereum (= ${binary:Version}), qtbase5
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libethereum (= ${binary:Version})
 Description: The Qt-based Ethereum GUI.
  A long description of alethzero.