diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index d9982b807bc7324543fc8117e6acd82930725808..0658a9500b795b4565bc02287c123cdb36c467c7 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 before_script:
   - apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y -qq libhdf5-dev
-  - pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
+  - pip install -U pip setuptools wheel numpy
   - pip install .
 
 test: