diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
index 4599f4d234..30f834a168 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ (define-public gnome-doc-utils
     (native-inputs
      `(("intltool" ,intltool)
        ("docbook-xml" ,docbook-xml-4.4)
+       ("python2-libxml2" ,python2-libxml2)
        ("libxml2" ,libxml2)
        ("libxslt" ,libxslt)
        ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)