diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index a0a9c7d422..aa3db32c0d 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.8.3
 Package: cassandra
 Architecture: all
 Depends: openjdk-6-jre-headless (>= 6b11) | java6-runtime, jsvc (>= 1.0), libcommons-daemon-java (>= 1.0), adduser, libjna-java, python (>= 2.5), python-support (>= 0.90.0), ${misc:Depends}
+Recommends: ntp
 Conflicts: apache-cassandra1
 Replaces: apache-cassandra1
 Description: distributed storage system for structured data