diff --git a/packages/drgn/config.sh b/packages/drgn/config.sh
index 0bb3fe37..791a6aac 100644
--- a/packages/drgn/config.sh
+++ b/packages/drgn/config.sh
@@ -17,11 +17,18 @@
 
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034
 DEFAULT_PACKAGE_GIT_URL="https://github.com/delphix/drgn.git"
+PACKAGE_DEPENDENCIES="libkdumpfile"
 
 UPSTREAM_GIT_URL="https://github.com/osandov/drgn.git"
 UPSTREAM_GIT_BRANCH="main"
 
 function prepare() {
+        #
+        # Strictly speaking libkdumpfile is not a hard prerequisite for
+        # drgn itself, but it is a hard requirement in our use-case as
+        # we do want to use drgn for kdump-compressed crash dumps.
+        #
+        logmust install_pkgs "$DEPDIR"/libkdumpfile/*.deb
 	logmust install_build_deps_from_control_file
 }