diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/au/auto-cpufreq/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/au/auto-cpufreq/package.nix
index 3a87f2ac0cbe..15db7faa4089 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/au/auto-cpufreq/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/au/auto-cpufreq/package.nix
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
   gobject-introspection,
   wrapGAppsHook3,
   gtk3,
+  getent,
 }:
 python3Packages.buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "auto-cpufreq";
@@ -29,15 +30,18 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonPackage rec {
     python3Packages.poetry-core
   ];
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [
-    click
-    distro
-    psutil
-    pygobject3
-    poetry-dynamic-versioning
-    setuptools
-    pyinotify
-  ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs =
+    with python3Packages;
+    [
+      click
+      distro
+      psutil
+      pygobject3
+      poetry-dynamic-versioning
+      setuptools
+      pyinotify
+    ]
+    ++ [ getent ];
 
   doCheck = false;
   pythonImportsCheck = [ "auto_cpufreq" ];