diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-test/cukinia/cukinia_0.6.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-test/cukinia/cukinia_0.6.2.bb
index 8927245937..470d26ef69 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-test/cukinia/cukinia_0.6.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-test/cukinia/cukinia_0.6.2.bb
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
 inherit allarch
 
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "libgpiod-tools"
+
 do_install () {
     install -d ${D}${sbindir}
     install -m 0755 ${S}/cukinia ${D}${sbindir}