diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/rh/compute.rhels8.pkglist b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/rh/compute.rhels8.pkglist
index 0feb58550..13eb3c39b 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/rh/compute.rhels8.pkglist
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/rh/compute.rhels8.pkglist
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ wget
 python3
 tar
 bzip2
+perl-interpreter
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels8.x86_64.pkglist b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels8.x86_64.pkglist
index cbeb2b5ab..635bd5046 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels8.x86_64.pkglist
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels8.x86_64.pkglist
@@ -26,4 +26,5 @@ bash
 vim-minimal
 rpm
 iputils
+perl-interpreter