diff --git a/modules/mediawiki/manifests/init.pp b/modules/mediawiki/manifests/init.pp
index 76ef75785b..83a705cb87 100644
--- a/modules/mediawiki/manifests/init.pp
+++ b/modules/mediawiki/manifests/init.pp
@@ -14,7 +14,14 @@ class mediawiki(
 ) {
 
   if ($role == 'app' or $role == 'all') {
-    require apache::dev
+    # This is equivalent to apache::dev which is not puppet3
+    # compatible with puppetlabs-apache 0.0.4:
+    package { ['libaprutil1-dev',
+               'libapr1-dev',
+               'apache2-prefork-dev']:
+      ensure => present,
+    }
+
     include apache
     include mediawiki::php
     include mediawiki::app