diff --git a/package/procps-ng/Config.in b/package/procps-ng/Config.in
index 0dea84aad9..7463fa8b90 100644
--- a/package/procps-ng/Config.in
+++ b/package/procps-ng/Config.in
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_PROCPS_NG
 	bool "procps-ng"
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_GETTEXT if BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT_IF_LOCALE
 	help
 	  Standard informational utilities and process-handling tools.
 	  Provides things like kill, ps, uptime, free, top, etc...
diff --git a/package/procps-ng/procps-ng.mk b/package/procps-ng/procps-ng.mk
index 3245e9235d..9227cc44a2 100644
--- a/package/procps-ng/procps-ng.mk
+++ b/package/procps-ng/procps-ng.mk
@@ -12,4 +12,9 @@ PROCPS_NG_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING COPYING.LIB
 
 PROCPS_NG_DEPENDENCIES = ncurses
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_GETTEXT),y)
+PROCPS_NG_DEPENDENCIES += gettext
+PROCPS_NG_CONF_OPT += LIBS=-lintl
+endif
+
 $(eval $(autotools-package))