diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 532da2165e8..0f2bf7f3cf5 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([cvxopt],
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([notebook],
   AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-notebook],
                  [disable build of the Jupyter notebook and related packages]), [
-    for pkg in notebook nbconvert beautifulsoup4 sagenb_export nbformat nbclient terminado send2trash prometheus_client mistune pandocfilters bleach defusedxml jsonschema jupyter_jsmol argon2_cffi webencodings tinycss2; do
+    for pkg in notebook nbconvert beautifulsoup4 sagenb_export nbformat nbclient terminado send2trash prometheus_client mistune pandocfilters bleach defusedxml jsonschema jupyter_jsmol argon2_cffi webencodings tinycss2 ipympl; do
       AS_VAR_SET([SAGE_ENABLE_$pkg], [$enableval])
     done
   ])