diff --git a/recipes-core/board-descriptor/board-descriptor.bb b/recipes-core/board-descriptor/board-descriptor.bb
index 0a718ea..a4a37fe 100644
--- a/recipes-core/board-descriptor/board-descriptor.bb
+++ b/recipes-core/board-descriptor/board-descriptor.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/GPL-2.0;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6"
 PR = "r0"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "python3-json"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "python3-core python3-json"
 
 SRC_URI =  " \
             file://bd.py \