diff --git a/.github/workflows/translations.yml b/.github/workflows/translations.yml
index f3b2cc2c6..3ad707751 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/translations.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/translations.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
           cache: 'pip'
           cache-dependency-path: setup.py
       - name: Install system-level dependencies
-        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python3-dev libgdal-dev gdal-bin libmagic-dev libmagickwand-dev libpoppler-cpp-dev
+        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python3-dev libgdal-dev gdal-bin libmagic-dev libmagickwand-dev gettext libpoppler-cpp-dev
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip pip-tools