diff --git a/distros/debian/control b/distros/debian/control
index 90a676b..e301cdf 100644
--- a/distros/debian/control
+++ b/distros/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: openalpr
 Section: video
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Matthew Hill <matthill@openalpr.com>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), git, cmake, quilt, libopencv-dev,
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), git, cmake, quilt, 
  libtesseract-dev, libtesseract-dev, libleptonica-dev, liblog4cplus-dev,
  libcurl3-dev, uuid-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6