diff --git a/testing/downstream_testing/Dockerfile b/testing/downstream_testing/Dockerfile
index c40cce6bb..4474f1d93 100644
--- a/testing/downstream_testing/Dockerfile
+++ b/testing/downstream_testing/Dockerfile
@@ -22,10 +22,6 @@ RUN set -ex; \
 RUN echo 'deb http://repo.mysql.com/apt/debian/ buster mysql-8.0' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mysql.list
 
 RUN apt-get update \
-	&& apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y make build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev \
-    libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev wget curl llvm libncurses5-dev xz-utils tk-dev \
-    libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev
-
-RUN apt-get install -y postgresql-client mysql-client
+	&& apt-get install -y postgresql-client mysql-client
 
 ENTRYPOINT [ "/entrypoint.sh" ]
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