diff --git a/share/install_gems/install_gems b/share/install_gems/install_gems
index 1acabc9ff9..c4b18adf3d 100755
--- a/share/install_gems/install_gems
+++ b/share/install_gems/install_gems
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ DISTRIBUTIONS={
         :dependencies_common => ['ruby-dev', 'make'],
         :dependencies => {
             SQLITE      => ['gcc', 'libsqlite3-dev'],
-            'mysql2'     => ['gcc', ['default-libmysqlclient-dev', 'libmysqlclient-dev']],
+            'mysql2'     => ['gcc', 'libssl-dev', ['default-libmysqlclient-dev', 'libmysqlclient-dev']],
             'curb'      => ['gcc', 'libcurl4-openssl-dev'],
             $nokogiri   => %w{gcc rake libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev patch},
             'xmlparser' => ['gcc', 'libexpat1-dev'],