diff --git a/C4/Acquisition.pm b/C4/Acquisition.pm
index 6894cb4133..45554da015 100644
--- a/C4/Acquisition.pm
+++ b/C4/Acquisition.pm
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ use MARC::Field;
 use MARC::Record;
 
 use Time::localtime;
-use HTML::Entities;
 
 use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT);
 
diff --git a/C4/Installer/PerlDependencies.pm b/C4/Installer/PerlDependencies.pm
index f8c11a7572..b64f7fe65a 100644
--- a/C4/Installer/PerlDependencies.pm
+++ b/C4/Installer/PerlDependencies.pm
@@ -817,6 +817,11 @@ our $PERL_DEPS = {
         'required' => '0',
         'min_ver'  => '0.01'
     },
+    'HTML::Entities' => {
+        usage => 'Core',
+        required => 1,
+        min_ver => '3.69', # same for Wheezy/Jessie
+    },
 };
 
 1;