diff --git a/contrib/debian/control.in b/contrib/debian/control.in
index e467c1b2..f5bfc758 100644
--- a/contrib/debian/control.in
+++ b/contrib/debian/control.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: web
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Peter Gervai <grin@tolna.net>
 Standards-Version: 3.6.1
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), m4, bison, libgnutls11-dev, libgpmg1-dev [@linux-gnu@], liblua50-dev, liblualib50-dev, libbz2-dev, libexpat1-dev (>= 1.95.6), type-handling (>= 0.2.1), libperl-dev
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), m4, bison, libgnutls11-dev, libgpmg1-dev [@linux-gnu@], liblua5.1-dev, libbz2-dev, libexpat1-dev (>= 1.95.6), type-handling (>= 0.2.1), libperl-dev
 
 Package: elinks
 Architecture: any
diff --git a/contrib/debian/rules b/contrib/debian/rules
index edc6b431..984cb70c 100755
--- a/contrib/debian/rules
+++ b/contrib/debian/rules
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = \
  --without-x \
  --with-gnutls=/usr \
  --with-perl --enable-nntp --enable-256-colors --enable-leds  \
- --without-spidermonkey
+ --without-spidermonkey \
+ --with-luapkg=lua5.1
 # spidermonkey: libsmjs-dev
 # perl libperl-dev