diff --git a/roles/baseconfig/tasks/main.yml b/roles/baseconfig/tasks/main.yml
index 5249244..bf88ae2 100644
--- a/roles/baseconfig/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/baseconfig/tasks/main.yml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
       - git  # code versioning
       - less  # i like cats
       - screen  # Vulcain asked for this
+      - lsb-release
     update_cache: true
   register: apt_result
   retries: 3