--- a/third_party/electron_node/BUILD.gn
+++ b/third_party/electron_node/BUILD.gn
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ declare_args() {
   node_module_version = ""

   # Allows downstream packagers (eg. Linux distributions) to build Electron against system shared libraries.
-  use_system_cares = false
-  use_system_nghttp2 = false
+  use_system_cares = true
+  use_system_nghttp2 = true
   use_system_llhttp = false
   use_system_histogram = false
 }