diff --git a/recipes/curated-tokenizers/meta.yaml b/recipes/curated-tokenizers/meta.yaml
index c418c4540eb74..18f5c8d24d9d2 100644
--- a/recipes/curated-tokenizers/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/curated-tokenizers/meta.yaml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ requirements:
     - pip
     - setuptools
     - cython
+    - libprotobuf
     - libsentencepiece
   run:
     - python