diff --git a/testing/slrn/APKBUILD b/testing/slrn/APKBUILD
index ee040b03bd2e80442fe6cd54ab111f9a51c11ffd..746d1cde2f9f3ccf8e3963a2d5949d0d2c7ec87d 100644
--- a/testing/slrn/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/slrn/APKBUILD
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ pkgdesc="An open source text-based news client"
 url="http://www.slrn.org/"
 arch="all"
 license="GPL"
-depends_dev="openssl-dev slang-dev"
-makedepends="$depends_dev"
+depends_dev=""
+makedepends="$depends_dev openssl-dev slang-dev ncurses-dev"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="http://jedsoft.org/releases/slrn/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"