diff --git a/pkg/arch/kernel-lts/PKGBUILD b/pkg/arch/kernel-lts/PKGBUILD
index fcf65405d..e7f749b25 100644
--- a/pkg/arch/kernel-lts/PKGBUILD
+++ b/pkg/arch/kernel-lts/PKGBUILD
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ url="https://www.kernel.org/"
 arch=(x86_64)
 license=(GPL2)
 makedepends=(
-  bc kmod libelf
+  bc kmod libelf python perl tar xz
   xmlto python-sphinx python-sphinx_rtd_theme graphviz imagemagick
 )
 options=('!strip')
diff --git a/pkg/arch/kernel/PKGBUILD b/pkg/arch/kernel/PKGBUILD
index 39dfffdf8..ea2c5a1c2 100644
--- a/pkg/arch/kernel/PKGBUILD
+++ b/pkg/arch/kernel/PKGBUILD
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ url="https://git.archlinux.org/linux.git/log/?h=$_srctag"
 arch=(x86_64)
 license=(GPL2)
 makedepends=(
-  bc kmod libelf
+  bc kmod libelf python perl tar xz
   # we don't need `pahole` as deps because we disable `CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO`
   # ignoring deps for docs because we don't build docs package
   git