diff --git a/lib/initcpio/install/arch_base_lowmem b/lib/initcpio/install/arch_base_lowmem
index ecf52b3e3..7d91f702d 100644
--- a/lib/initcpio/install/arch_base_lowmem
+++ b/lib/initcpio/install/arch_base_lowmem
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 install ()
 {
     SCRIPT="arch_base_lowmem"
-    BINARIES="init agetty mount modprobe umount head basename clear nano printf tail test tty wc which xargs yes syslog-ng bash swapon uniq cut seq find sort fdisk sfdisk cfdisk parted gawk cp mv shutdown ls rm sed less chgrp chmod chown df dialog dmesg egrep fgrep grep kill killall killall5 more ps pwd rmdir stty sync tar touch uname hdparm true mktemp chroot dirname bzip2 date hwclock depmod cat gzip tr sdparm expr tput ifconfig ln losetup mkdir mkfifo mknod readlink echo gunzip zcat reset swapoff halt telinit awk dir poweroff reboot pidof nc"
+    BINARIES="init agetty mount modprobe umount head basename clear nano printf tail test tty wc which xargs yes syslog-ng bash swapon uniq cut seq find sort fdisk sfdisk cfdisk parted gawk cp mv shutdown ls rm sed less chgrp chmod chown df dialog dmesg egrep fgrep grep kill killall killall5 more ps pwd rmdir stty sync tar touch uname hdparm true mktemp chroot dirname bzip2 date hwclock depmod cat gzip tr sdparm expr tput ifconfig ln losetup mkdir mkfifo mknod readlink echo gunzip zcat reset swapoff halt telinit awk dir poweroff reboot pidof nc lzcat lzcmp lzdiff lzegrep lzfgrep lzgrep lzless lzma lzmadec lzmore unlzma unxz xz xzcat xzdec"
 
     ### setting up base structure
     add_dir "/proc"
diff --git a/lib/initcpio/install/arch_pacman b/lib/initcpio/install/arch_pacman
index 14d844954..89db5252a 100644
--- a/lib/initcpio/install/arch_pacman
+++ b/lib/initcpio/install/arch_pacman
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ rt2x00-rt61-fw rt2x00-rt71w-fw rt2500 ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-utils \
 zd1211-firmware ipw2100-fw ipw2200-fw iwlwifi-3945-ucode iwlwifi-4965-ucode iwlwifi-5000-ucode \
 smbclient tdb tiacx tiacx-firmware dmraid linux-atm netcfg tiacx tiacx-firmware parted tzdata ntp \
 v86d wlan-ng26-utils iw crda wireless-regdb libnl iproute2 dhclient syslinux mtools perl \
-gmp heimdal sqlite3 db dbus-core libcap fsarchiver iwlwifi-5150-ucode"
+gmp heimdal sqlite3 db dbus-core libcap fsarchiver iwlwifi-5150-ucode xz-utils"
 
 for i in $DEPENDS; do
 	for k in  $(echo /var/lib/pacman/local/$i-[0-9]*-[0-9]*); do
diff --git a/lib/initcpio/install/arch_pacman_lowmem b/lib/initcpio/install/arch_pacman_lowmem
index 59c30bb2a..70cc5c4af 100644
--- a/lib/initcpio/install/arch_pacman_lowmem
+++ b/lib/initcpio/install/arch_pacman_lowmem
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ syslog-ng sysvinit tar util-linux-ng which xfsprogs hdparm memtest86+ \
 grub hwdetect shadow dosfstools udev initscripts filesystem kernel26 glibc kernel-headers pacman pacman-mirrorlist pam \
 bzip2 gcc-libs openssl zlib libelf gpm sysfsutils libgcrypt libgpg-error popt libpcap lilo grub gzip libarchive \
 libdownload device-mapper cracklib readline acl attr archboot klibc libevent sdparm licenses dmraid parted syslinux \
-gmp ntfsprogs pcre fuse libcap"
+gmp ntfsprogs pcre fuse libcap xz-utils"
 
 for i in $DEPENDS; do
 	for k in  $(echo /var/lib/pacman/local/$i-[0-9]*-[0-9]*); do