diff --git a/gnu/system/install.scm b/gnu/system/install.scm
index 6f4116ef9b..3d0b151fb8 100644
--- a/gnu/system/install.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/install.scm
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ (define installation-os
                      parted ddrescue
                      grub                  ;mostly so xrefs to its manual work
                      cryptsetup
-                     wireless-tools iw wpa-supplicant-light
+                     wireless-tools iw wpa-supplicant-light iproute2
                      ;; XXX: We used to have GNU fdisk here, but as of version
                      ;; 2.0.0a, that pulls Guile 1.8, which takes unreasonable
                      ;; space; furthermore util-linux's fdisk is already