diff --git a/Leap-selfinstall-GNOME/selfinstall-gnome.kiwi b/Leap-selfinstall-GNOME/selfinstall-gnome.kiwi
index 02f2d55..60c440d 100644
--- a/Leap-selfinstall-GNOME/selfinstall-gnome.kiwi
+++ b/Leap-selfinstall-GNOME/selfinstall-gnome.kiwi
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
         <package name="coreutils"/>
         <package name="gawk"/>
         <package name="gzip"/>
+        <package name="tar"/>
         <package name="hostname"/>
         <package name="openssl"/>
         <package name="filesystem"/>