diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 8fdf6d2c4e6de3a50443a8c9d030c14dab632bbc..9fdc6fc4115142167723e3b9914acb1bab587e90 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ before_script:
   - R -e "BiocManager::install('S4Vectors', update = FALSE)"
   - R -e "BiocManager::install('DESeq2', update = FALSE)" 
   - R -e 'install.packages(setdiff(desc::desc()$get_deps()$package, c(installed.packages(), "R")));'
-
+  - R -e 'update.packages(ask = FALSE, checkBuilt = TRUE)'