diff --git a/files/debs/n-cpu b/files/debs/n-cpu
index 69ac430290..d8bbf59d07 100644
--- a/files/debs/n-cpu
+++ b/files/debs/n-cpu
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ cryptsetup
 genisoimage
 gir1.2-libosinfo-1.0
 lvm2 # NOPRIME
+netcat-openbsd
 open-iscsi
 python-guestfs # NOPRIME
 qemu-utils