diff --git a/nixos/tests/installer.nix b/nixos/tests/installer.nix
index 54224302e008..6be3346d9850 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/installer.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/installer.nix
@@ -734,6 +734,7 @@ let
                 texinfo
                 unionfs-fuse
                 xorg.lndir
+                shellcheck-minimal
 
                 # add curl so that rather than seeing the test attempt to download
                 # curl's tarball, we see what it's trying to download