diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f3645ef..36c948d 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.9.5
 
 Package: nagios-snmp-plugins
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libnet-snmp-perl, nagios-plugins-basic (>= 1.4.5-2), perl-base (>= 5.8.4-8), ucf
+Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libnet-snmp-perl, monitoring-plugins-common | nagios-plugins-basic (>= 1.4.5-2), perl-base (>= 5.8.4-8), ucf
 Description: SNMP Plugins for nagios
  A set of Nagios plugins to check hosts/devices using snmp protocol
  .
diff --git a/debian/postinst b/debian/postinst
index 55a755d..c27de01 100644
--- a/debian/postinst
+++ b/debian/postinst
@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@ set -e
 templdir=/usr/share/nagios-snmp-plugins/pluginconfig
 
 if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
-	if [ -f /usr/share/nagios-plugins/dpkg/functions ]; then
+	if [ -f /usr/share/monitoring-plugins/dpkg/functions ]; then
+		# only working with monitoring-plugins-basic
+		. /usr/share/monitoring-plugins/dpkg/functions
+		register_cfgs $2
+	elif [ -f /usr/share/nagios-plugins/dpkg/functions ]; then
 		# only working with nagios-plugins-basic (>= 1.4.5-2)
 		. /usr/share/nagios-plugins/dpkg/functions
 		register_cfgs $2