diff --git a/colladadom/manifest.xml b/colladadom/manifest.xml
index 001a1ef..194318d 100644
--- a/colladadom/manifest.xml
+++ b/colladadom/manifest.xml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
   <url>http://ros.org/wiki/colladadom</url>
   <rosdep name="libxml2"/>
   <rosdep name="unzip"/>
+  <rosdep name="pcre"/>
   <export>
     <cpp lflags="-Wl,-rpath,${prefix}/lib -L${prefix}/lib -lcollada15dom -lminizip `rosboost-cfg --lflags system` `rosboost-cfg --lflags filesystem`" cflags="-I${prefix}/include `rosboost-cfg --cflags`"/>
     <cpp os="osx" lflags="-F${prefix}/lib -framework Collada15Dom" cflags="-I${prefix}/include"/>
diff --git a/rosdep.yaml b/rosdep.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3238800
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rosdep.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+pcre:
+  ubuntu: libpcre3-dev
+  fedora: pcre-devel