diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 44d694e383df3f7897cfd2ffbdeb9a46103e3a67..19b752ae893b663cc46adc88abfd2e5b621627b3 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ image: ubuntu:latest
 
 
 before_script:
+  - export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
   - apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y -qq build-essential libhdf5-serial-dev gfortran csh git libtool-bin autoconf openmpi-bin openmpi-common libopenmpi-dev python3 python3-setuptools python3-numpy python3-scipy python3-matplotlib
   - export LHOME=`pwd`
 # Compile grackle