diff --git a/.github/ci/packages.apt b/.github/ci/packages.apt
index ca9abe8e1..967af5b41 100644
--- a/.github/ci/packages.apt
+++ b/.github/ci/packages.apt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 libeigen3-dev
 libignition-cmake3-dev
 libignition-utils2-dev
+libpython3-dev
 python3-distutils
 python3-pybind11
 ruby-dev