diff --git a/makefiles/in_chroot/install.sh b/makefiles/in_chroot/install.sh
index 6abed47d..3e158f31 100755
--- a/makefiles/in_chroot/install.sh
+++ b/makefiles/in_chroot/install.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ pacman --noconfirm -R linux-zedboard || true
 
 # install dependencies
 pacman --noconfirm --needed -S $(grep -vE "^\s*#" makefiles/in_chroot/requirements_pacman.txt | tr "\n" " ")
+pip install wheel
 pip install -r makefiles/in_chroot/requirements_pip.txt
 
 # setup users
diff --git a/makefiles/in_chroot/requirements_pacman.txt b/makefiles/in_chroot/requirements_pacman.txt
index b8d30406..5a60265e 100644
--- a/makefiles/in_chroot/requirements_pacman.txt
+++ b/makefiles/in_chroot/requirements_pacman.txt
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ nano
 python-pip
 python-numpy
 dtc
+man
+man-pages
 
 # webserver
 lighttpd
@@ -50,3 +52,7 @@ iw
 wpa_supplicant
 networkmanager
 dnsmasq
+
+# tools required to compile pic firmware
+sdcc
+gputils
diff --git a/makefiles/in_chroot/requirements_pip.txt b/makefiles/in_chroot/requirements_pip.txt
index 9bd53313..387c4df9 100644
--- a/makefiles/in_chroot/requirements_pip.txt
+++ b/makefiles/in_chroot/requirements_pip.txt
@@ -5,3 +5,6 @@
 pypng==0.0.18
 bitarray
 pyserial
+IntelHex
+wheel
+smbus-cffi