diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5ece8d6..50f5637 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,14 @@ publish = false
 maintainer = "mollusk <jitty+lc1iz0dc@protonmail.com>"
 section = "net"
 priority = "optional"
-depends = "$auto"
+# $auto covers linked shared libs (dpkg-shlibdeps). The GStreamer capture stack
+# and pactl are invoked as *subprocesses* (gst-launch-1.0 / gst-inspect-1.0 /
+# pactl), so shlibdeps can't see them — list them explicitly or a fresh Ubuntu
+# host bails at `deps::check_host_binaries` before emitting its ticket. Covers
+# both backends: pipewiresrc (Wayland), ximagesrc (X11, in plugins-good), the
+# VAAPI + software H.264 encoders, the AAC/TS mux tail, and the PulseAudio src.
+depends = "$auto, gstreamer1.0-tools, gstreamer1.0-plugins-base, gstreamer1.0-plugins-good, gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad, gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly, gstreamer1.0-libav, gstreamer1.0-pipewire, gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio, pulseaudio-utils, x11-utils"
+recommends = "mpv"
 extended-description = "Peer-to-peer screen sharing over iroh (QUIC). Companion to peerspeak: shares a window or screen directly to a peer with no central server, driven via the CLI and its JSON event stream."
 assets = [
     ["target/release/pixelpass", "usr/bin/", "755"],