diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index eae74862e90f4874f7b09dbb7f4ede6f32b291b4..322eab9436cc6f3ac454ba04d7a0818c49b8a753 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ image: r-base
 
 before_script:
   - apt-get update
-  - apt-get -y install libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libfontconfig1-dev libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev libgit2-dev libfreetype6-dev libpng-dev libtiff5-dev libjpeg-dev pandoc r-cran-rcpp r-cran-devtools r-cran-testthat r-cran-curl r-cran-seqinr r-cran-ape r-bioc-biostrings r-cran-uuid r-cran-callr r-cran-rmarkdown r-bioc-biocstyle
+  - apt-get -y install pandoc r-cran-rcpp r-cran-devtools r-cran-testthat r-cran-curl r-cran-seqinr r-cran-ape r-bioc-biostrings r-cran-uuid r-cran-callr r-cran-rmarkdown r-bioc-biocstyle
   - R -e "dir(); getwd(); sessionInfo(); install.packages('tidyverse', repos='http://cran.rstudio.com'); install.packages('pkgdown', repos='http://cran.rstudio.com'); install.packages('RcppThread', repos='http://cran.rstudio.com'); Rcpp::compileAttributes(); devtools::install(); update.packages(ask = FALSE, checkBuilt = TRUE)"
 
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