diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index cd3c6e7..e84b2e8 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Vcs-Browser: http://git.colivre.coop.br/?p=noosfero.git
 
 Package: noosfero
 Architecture: all
+Pre-Depends: ruby1.8 (>= 1.8.7.358)
 Depends:
  rails3 (>= 3.2.6-1~),
  ruby (>= 1:1.9.3),
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libgit2 0.21.2