diff --git a/doc/topics/tutorials/halite.rst b/doc/topics/tutorials/halite.rst
index 482869c1ba..968ebb8ace 100644
--- a/doc/topics/tutorials/halite.rst
+++ b/doc/topics/tutorials/halite.rst
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ On Debian based distributions:
 
     $ apt-get install gcc
     $ apt-get install python-dev
+    $ apt-get install libevent-dev
     $ pip install gevent