diff --git a/make-linux b/make-linux
index de2b6ae..01c2578 100755
--- a/make-linux
+++ b/make-linux
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ cp -f build/Makefile.linux build/linux/Makefile
 cd build/linux
 
 # Install prereqs based on https://github.com/apache/parquet-cpp#linux
-sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev \
+sudo apt-get install libboost-dev g++ libboost-filesystem-dev \
   libboost-program-options-dev libboost-regex-dev \
   libboost-system-dev libboost-test-dev \
   libssl-dev libtool bison flex pkg-config