diff --git a/containers/debian/base.Dockerfile b/containers/debian/base.Dockerfile
index b2632eb35adce004fcf0c33cbff45fe07722a70c..759666a9395125fa974162c53278314e9de5d3fb 100644
--- a/containers/debian/base.Dockerfile
+++ b/containers/debian/base.Dockerfile
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ apt-get -yqq install --no-install-recommends                            \
         python3-dev                                                     \
         python3-distutils                                               \
         python3-boto3                                                   \
+        python3-gdbm                                                    \
         python-is-python3
 EOF