diff --git a/base/genie-hedis:apfel b/base/genie-hedis:apfel
index f49a9f339ad46d46c05ab6d0afcc5753d939db0b..ec3e38dd69d1d5cdb21dd49fa50fd05997f705ae 100644
--- a/base/genie-hedis:apfel
+++ b/base/genie-hedis:apfel
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 FROM docker.km3net.de/base/centos-full-root6-pythia
  MAINTAINER Vladimir Kulikovskiy <vkulikovskiy@km3net.de>
  
- #Now we are going to install GENIE-HEDIS (needed for gSeaGen)
+#Now we are going to install GENIE-HEDIS (needed for gSeaGen)
+#it looks for libgfortran in /usr/lib64, otherwise linking will fail
+ RUN ln -s /lib64/libgfortran.so.3 /usr/lib64/libgfortran.so
+
  RUN cd / && mkdir genie && cd genie && \
     git clone -b apfel https://github.com/pochoarus/GENIE-HEDIS.git genie_generator && \
     cd genie_generator && mkdir install && \