diff --git a/baseimage/initializeBaseUbuntuImage.sh b/baseimage/initializeBaseUbuntuImage.sh
index c519a6a82..671806a8c 100755
--- a/baseimage/initializeBaseUbuntuImage.sh
+++ b/baseimage/initializeBaseUbuntuImage.sh
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ for image in ${images}; do
 done
 
 echo "==> Install collectd"
-if ! apt-get install -y collectd collectd-utils; then
+if ! apt-get install -y libcurl3-gnutls collectd collectd-utils; then
     # FQDNLookup is true in default debian config. The box code has a custom collectd.conf that fixes this
     echo "Failed to install collectd. Presumably because of http://mailman.verplant.org/pipermail/collectd/2015-March/006491.html"
     sed -e 's/^FQDNLookup true/FQDNLookup false/' -i /etc/collectd/collectd.conf