diff --git a/meta-gnome/dynamic-layers/meta-virtualization/recipes-gnome/gnome-boxes/gnome-boxes_47.0.bb b/meta-gnome/dynamic-layers/meta-virtualization/recipes-gnome/gnome-boxes/gnome-boxes_47.0.bb
index 4787651a93..80f0e89a69 100644
--- a/meta-gnome/dynamic-layers/meta-virtualization/recipes-gnome/gnome-boxes/gnome-boxes_47.0.bb
+++ b/meta-gnome/dynamic-layers/meta-virtualization/recipes-gnome/gnome-boxes/gnome-boxes_47.0.bb
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ GNOMEBASEBUILDCLASS = "meson"
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES += "gobject-introspection-data opengl"
 
 DEPENDS = " \
+  appstream-native \
   glib-2.0 \
   desktop-file-utils-native \
+  itstool-native \
   libarchive \
   libgudev \
   libhandy \