diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index c42f585..fa69211 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ stages:
   - deploy
 
 variables:
-    APT_PKGS: "libcurl4-openssl-dev libssh2-1-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev git build-essential gobjc++ libomp-dev libmagick++-6.q16-dev tk dialog libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev cmake"
+    APT_PKGS: "libcurl4-openssl-dev libssh2-1-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev git build-essential gobjc++ libomp-dev libmagick++-6.q16-dev tk dialog libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev libudunits2-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libproj-dev cmake wget"
     _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_: "false"
     _R_CHECK_DONTTEST_EXAMPLES_: "false"
     TT_AT_HOME: "true"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ before_script:
   - apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends qpdf pandoc pandoc-citeproc
   - export PATH="/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/littler/examples/:${PATH}"
   - echo "options(Ncpus = $(nproc --all))" >> /usr/local/lib/R/etc/Rprofile.site
-  - install2.r devtools
+  - r -e "install.packages('devtools', method = 'wget')"
   - r -e 'devtools::install_dev_deps()'
 
 r-release: