diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/syslog-ng/syslog-ng_4.8.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/syslog-ng/syslog-ng_4.8.2.bb
index cfc376ded1..3d8570122b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/syslog-ng/syslog-ng_4.8.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/syslog-ng/syslog-ng_4.8.2.bb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=924958cefc9f7de3e0b818832b8a1cec"
 
 # util-linux added to get libuuid
-DEPENDS = "libpcre flex glib-2.0 openssl util-linux bison-native curl json-c"
+DEPENDS = "libpcre2 flex glib-2.0 openssl util-linux bison-native curl json-c"
 
 SRC_URI = "https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/releases/download/${BP}/${BP}.tar.gz \
            file://syslog-ng.conf.systemd \