diff --git a/lam-packaging/debian/control b/lam-packaging/debian/control
index 3a276562..1ac0be92 100644
--- a/lam-packaging/debian/control
+++ b/lam-packaging/debian/control
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Homepage: https://www.ldap-account-manager.org/
 Package: ldap-account-manager
 Architecture: all
 Depends: php5 (>= 5.2.4), php5-ldap, php5-gd, apache2 | httpd, php-fpdf (>= 1.7), debconf (>= 0.2.26) | debconf-2.0, ${misc:Depends}
+Recommends: php-apc
 Suggests: ldap-server, php5-mcrypt, ldap-account-manager-lamdaemon, perl
 Description: webfrontend for managing accounts in an LDAP directory
  LDAP Account Manager (LAM) runs on an existing webserver.