diff --git a/make-linux b/make-linux
index d58ea37..7982017 100755
--- a/make-linux
+++ b/make-linux
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ install_prerequisites() {
   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
+    libssl-dev libtool bison flex pkg-config libreadline-dev libncurses-dev
 
   # Install prereqs based on https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/cpp
   sudo apt-get install cmake \