diff --git a/roles/calibre-web/tasks/install.yml b/roles/calibre-web/tasks/install.yml
index 05557a611..6c35db157 100644
--- a/roles/calibre-web/tasks/install.yml
+++ b/roles/calibre-web/tasks/install.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 - name: "Install ImageMagick package: imagemagick"
   package:
-    name: imagemagick
+    name:
+      - imagemagick
+      - python3-venv
     state: present
 
 - name: Allow ImageMagick to read PDFs, per /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml, to create book cover thumbnails