diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 60ec503e63b082b7c82e32353fbd28a1fcf2ec61..09b219cdde73ecda83fb94b841a45138ecb2ad77 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ before_script:
   - apt-get -yqq update
 
   # install the required packages for the running CI tests
-  - apt-get -yqqf install zip unzip subversion mysql-client default-libmysqlclient-dev --fix-missing
+  - apt-get -yqqf install zip unzip subversion mysql-client --fix-missing
 
   # PHP extensions
   - docker-php-ext-install mbstring