diff --git a/.github/workflows/perl_ci.yml b/.github/workflows/perl_ci.yml
index bda3a53..bc8a5ad 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/perl_ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/perl_ci.yml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: apt-get to prepare for cached perl packages
         run:  |
           sudo apt-get update -y
-          sudo apt-get install -y sqlite3 libgd-dev libsqlite3-dev libberkeleydb-perl libcdb-file-perl
+          sudo apt-get install -y libdb-dev sqlite3 libgd-dev libsqlite3-dev libberkeleydb-perl libcdb-file-perl
       - name: cpanm installations hopefully cached
         run: cpanm DBI DBD::SQLite JSON