diff --git a/files/apts/n-api b/files/apts/n-api
index 0f08daace3..ad943ffdf8 100644
--- a/files/apts/n-api
+++ b/files/apts/n-api
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+gcc  # temporary because this pulls in glance to get the client without running the glance prereqs
 python-dateutil