diff --git a/mk/linux/setupBuildDeps.sh b/mk/linux/setupBuildDeps.sh
index 8defae53..883a247e 100755
--- a/mk/linux/setupBuildDeps.sh
+++ b/mk/linux/setupBuildDeps.sh
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ error_during_installation () {
 case $distribution in
 	Debian) 
 		case $release in
-			6.0*)
+			6.0*|unstable)
 				# No libvlc-dev since version (1.1.3) in Debian 6.0/Squeeze is incompatible, no libluajit-5.1-dev because it is not available on Debian 6.0/Squeeze, cf. http://glest.org/glest_board/?topic=8460
 				installcommand='apt-get install build-essential subversion automake autoconf autogen cmake libsdl1.2-dev libxerces-c2-dev libalut-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libvorbis-dev libwxbase2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libx11-dev liblua5.1-0-dev libjpeg-dev libpng12-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxml2-dev libircclient-dev libglew-dev libftgl-dev libfribidi-dev libminiupnpc-dev librtmp-dev libgtk2.0-dev libcppunit-dev'
 				$installcommand