diff --git a/gnu/packages/ebook.scm b/gnu/packages/ebook.scm
index 96d846ad10..dc30c98fdf 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ebook.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ebook.scm
@@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ with Microsoft Compiled HTML (CHM) files")
            qtbase-5                     ; for qmake
            xdg-utils))
     (inputs
-     (list fontconfig
+     (list bash-minimal
+           fontconfig
            font-liberation
            glib
            hunspell