diff --git a/tasks/rosetta/install_error_summary.yml b/tasks/rosetta/install_error_summary.yml
index 6c5a3b4532f3e00cff254abeecb5e047ebd525a3..b09dc2b6246d3d197a4ae085a1c9f88d099b5695 100644
--- a/tasks/rosetta/install_error_summary.yml
+++ b/tasks/rosetta/install_error_summary.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,18 @@
 ---
+- name: install prerequisite packages for error summary script
+  ansible.builtin.package:
+    name: [
+      "help2man",
+      "grep",
+      "sed",
+      "gzip",
+      "man",
+      "findutils",
+      "file",
+      "coreutils",
+    ]
+    state: latest
+
 - name: install error summary script
   ansible.builtin.copy:
     src: "error-summary.sh"