diff --git a/packages/DEBIAN/control b/packages/DEBIAN/control
index ec211fb955c1004d5ee2514808e9d499e166d808..ef06cca40e1c272ae9af9c1349a3b6f793e4abf4 100644
--- a/packages/DEBIAN/control
+++ b/packages/DEBIAN/control
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Architecture: all
 Depends: apache2,
          default-jdk,
          libapache2-mod-php5 | libapache2-mod-php,
+         libapache2-mod-php5 | php-mbstring,
          mysql-server | virtual-mysql-server-core,
          php-pear,
          php5 | php,