diff --git a/doc/build-freebsd.md b/doc/build-freebsd.md
index d5a3004c8a..dd734f7787 100644
--- a/doc/build-freebsd.md
+++ b/doc/build-freebsd.md
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ There is an included test suite that is useful for testing code changes when dev
 To run the test suite (recommended), you will need to have Python 3 installed:
 
 ```bash
-pkg install python3
+pkg install python3 databases/py-sqlite3
 ```
 ---