diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d0b85dccf..4d7e3d5d9 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.7.2
 
 Package: yacy
 Architecture: any
-Depends: sun-java6-jre, sudo
+Depends: java-virtual-machine, java2-runtime, sudo
 Description: P2P Web Search Engine
  YaCy is a Java-based peer-2-peer search engine.
  It provoids a personal websearch engine, which is