diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index d3501a131085eb2957ce92a5a3cb9404b955f2da..d06e4bf4b05d4db38754b76b1790fbd10f01fe9d 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ test:
     - mkdir -p "${APT_STATE_LISTS}/partial"
     - mkdir -p "${APT_CACHE_ARCHIVES}/partial"
     - apt update -qy
-    - apt install -y apt-utils curl libgdal-dev make
+    - apt install -y apt-utils curl libgdal-dev make systemd
     - localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
     - export PGPASSWORD=$POSTGRES_PASSWORD
     - psql --username $POSTGRES_USER --host postgres -d $POSTGRES_DB -c "ALTER ROLE anthology_django SET client_encoding TO 'utf8';"