diff --git a/jhbuild/utils/systeminstall.py b/jhbuild/utils/systeminstall.py
index d8916bfb85f51a2a8d083d56b3bbcf0cc1ab156c..868b34ab5dd5810079566ad7b86fd338706a0ba9 100644
--- a/jhbuild/utils/systeminstall.py
+++ b/jhbuild/utils/systeminstall.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import shlex
 import subprocess
 import pipes
 import imp
+import textwrap
 import time
 from StringIO import StringIO
 
@@ -180,6 +181,20 @@ def systemdependencies_met(module_name, sysdeps, config):
             except:
                 dep_met = False
 
+        elif dep_type == 'python3':
+            python3_script = textwrap.dedent('''
+                import imp
+                import sys
+                try:
+                    imp.find_module(sys.argv[1])
+                except:
+                    exit(1)
+                ''').strip('\n')
+            try:
+                subprocess.check_call(['python3', '-c', python3_script, value])
+            except (subprocess.CalledProcessError, OSError):
+                dep_met = False
+
         elif dep_type == 'xml':
             xml_catalog = '/etc/xml/catalog'
 
diff --git a/modulesets/gnome-suites-core-deps-latest.modules b/modulesets/gnome-suites-core-deps-latest.modules
index 9c9dbca933310ab39e19daf58a04b8cdcad3cf24..dd9ec66782789e14f459f2ef459477eedfdbbb21 100644
--- a/modulesets/gnome-suites-core-deps-latest.modules
+++ b/modulesets/gnome-suites-core-deps-latest.modules
@@ -1003,6 +1003,7 @@
       <dep package="gettext"/>
       <dep package="docbook-xml"/>
       <dep package="docbook-xsl"/>
+      <dep package="python3-pygments"/>
       <dep package="cc"/>
       <if condition-unset="macos"> <!-- fall back to vim on macos -->
         <dep package="source-highlight"/>
diff --git a/modulesets/gnome-sysdeps-latest.modules b/modulesets/gnome-sysdeps-latest.modules
index d5998b353339b20ede2f694e998a4e0c9a55a1c1..ad8513b9208a01966eec76895e0eb4165b3577a4 100644
--- a/modulesets/gnome-sysdeps-latest.modules
+++ b/modulesets/gnome-sysdeps-latest.modules
@@ -1096,6 +1096,13 @@
             version="3.2"/>
   </systemmodule>
 
+  <systemmodule id="python3-pygments">
+    <branch repo="system"/>
+    <systemdependencies>
+      <dep type="python3" name="pygments"/>
+    </systemdependencies>
+  </systemmodule>
+
   <systemmodule id="ragel">
     <branch repo="system"/>
     <systemdependencies>