diff --git a/package/debian/control b/package/debian/control
index 49be07706..4dd9805f5 100644
--- a/package/debian/control
+++ b/package/debian/control
@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), libdeflate-dev, libgettextpo-dev,
  libc6-dev, libjansson-dev, libpng-dev, libcups2-dev, libfreetype6-dev,
  libfontconfig1-dev, libdbus-1-dev, libicu-dev, cmake, git,
  xserver-xorg-dev, libxinerama-dev, libxrandr-dev, libxrender-dev,
- libxcursor-dev, libsm-dev, unifdef | dpkg
+ libxcursor-dev, libsm-dev, fonts-freefont-ttf, unifdef | dpkg
 
 Package: katie-runtime
 Architecture: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips mips64el mipsel ppc64el s390x hurd-i386
 Section: x11
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, xdg-utils
-Recommends: xserver-xorg-core, fonts-freefont-ttf
+Recommends: xserver-xorg-core
 Description: C++ toolkit derived from the Qt 4.8 framework
  Katie is continuation of the Qt4 C++ toolkit with the goal to keep it alive,
  clean it up, fix some bugs and backport some features from Qt5. It is based