diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
index 13b17c23d..38576d8db 100644
--- a/.cirrus.yml
+++ b/.cirrus.yml
@@ -127,6 +127,11 @@ task:
         <<: *standard_gce_instance
         image_project: ubuntu-os-cloud
         image_name: ubuntu-2210-kinetic-amd64-v20230113
+      setup_script:
+        - apt-get update
+        - apt-get install -y git autoconf automake gcc g++ zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libdb-dev libeditreadline-dev make xsltproc libwww-perl libboost-dev
+        - useradd -m build
+        - chown -R build .
   setup_script:
     - apt-get update
     - apt-get install -y git autoconf automake gcc g++ zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libdb-dev libreadline-dev libeditline-dev make xsltproc libwww-perl libboost-dev