diff --git a/release.nix b/release.nix
index cfec7b9e7..5a5a1226f 100644
--- a/release.nix
+++ b/release.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ let
 
         buildInputs =
           [ curl bison flex perl libxml2 libxslt bzip2
-            tetex dblatex nukeReferences pkgconfig sqlite libsodium
+            dblatex (dblatex.tex or tetex) nukeReferences pkgconfig sqlite libsodium
             docbook5 docbook5_xsl
           ] ++ lib.optional (!lib.inNixShell) git;