diff --git a/packaging/debian-multiarch/control b/packaging/debian-multiarch/control
index 1f861a83f..980897801 100644
--- a/packaging/debian-multiarch/control
+++ b/packaging/debian-multiarch/control
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Multi-Arch: same
 Section: web
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, tmpreaper, sope4.9-libxmlsaxdriver, sope4.9-db-connector, gnustep-make, libcurl3
+Recommends: memcached
 Suggests: nginx
 Description: a modern and scalable groupware
  SOGo is a groupware server built around OpenGroupware.org (OGo) and
diff --git a/packaging/debian/control b/packaging/debian/control
index 6642d7fb3..c80b50abd 100644
--- a/packaging/debian/control
+++ b/packaging/debian/control
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Package: sogo
 Section: web
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, tmpreaper, sope4.9-libxmlsaxdriver, sope4.9-db-connector, gnustep-make, libcurl3
+Recommends: memcached
 Suggests: nginx
 Description: a modern and scalable groupware
  SOGo is a groupware server built around OpenGroupware.org (OGo) and
diff --git a/packaging/debian/control-squeeze b/packaging/debian/control-squeeze
index 7a047b1a2..0f5963934 100644
--- a/packaging/debian/control-squeeze
+++ b/packaging/debian/control-squeeze
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Package: sogo
 Section: web
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, tmpreaper, sope4.9-libxmlsaxdriver, sope4.9-db-connector, gnustep-make, libcurl3
+Recommends: memcached
 Suggests: nginx
 Description: a modern and scalable groupware
  SOGo is a groupware server built around OpenGroupware.org (OGo) and
diff --git a/packaging/rhel/sogo.spec b/packaging/rhel/sogo.spec
index 61321137d..7be9b5c3e 100644
--- a/packaging/rhel/sogo.spec
+++ b/packaging/rhel/sogo.spec
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Group:        Productivity/Groupware
 Source:       SOGo-%{sogo_version}.tar.gz
 Prefix:       /usr
 AutoReqProv:  off
-Requires:     gnustep-base >= 1.23, sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-core, httpd, sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-core, sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-appserver, sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-ldap, sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-cards >= %{sogo_version}, sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-gdl1-contentstore >= %{sogo_version}, sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-sbjson, libmemcached
+Requires:     gnustep-base >= 1.23, sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-core, httpd, sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-core, sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-appserver, sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-ldap, sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-cards >= %{sogo_version}, sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-gdl1-contentstore >= %{sogo_version}, sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-sbjson, libmemcached, memcached
 BuildRoot:    %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}
 BuildRequires:  gcc-objc gnustep-base gnustep-make sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-appserver-devel sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-core-devel sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-ldap-devel sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-mime-devel sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-xml-devel sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-gdl1-devel sope%{sope_major_version}%{sope_minor_version}-sbjson-devel libmemcached-devel sed %{?oc_build_depends}