diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 197153c3e6ea2353a27f03875c35f737929d67f4..27e2d6d6ac1b8f661d60c1aad82e01179cc4c9b8 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ update_packages:
 build:
   stage: build
   script:
+    - apt-get update && apt-get -y install libxml2-dev
     - Rscript -e "roxygen2::roxygenise()"
     - R CMD build ../griwrm
   artifacts: