diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9c8cf5a9..6308d4d0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ The **patch** part changes incrementally at each release.
 ### Fixed
 
 * bind9: added log files to apparmor definition so bind can run
+* nagios-nrpe: libfcgi-client-perl is not available before Debian 10
 * redis: socket/pid directories have the correct permissions
 
 ### Removed
diff --git a/nagios-nrpe/tasks/main.yml b/nagios-nrpe/tasks/main.yml
index d8e72cd7..065ffacc 100644
--- a/nagios-nrpe/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/nagios-nrpe/tasks/main.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
     name:
       - libfcgi-client-perl
     state: present
+  when:
+    - ansible_distribution == "Debian"
+    - ansible_distribution_major_version is version('10', '>=')
   tags:
     - nagios-plugins