diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index 7781d0ee47120b2327693b56d00446160dad122d..814d68fb4f264747ca46f2572944b46afda719c1 100644
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@ basedir=$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")
 
 # Make sure conda is updated to a version that supports the --no-capture-output option
 # conda install -y -n base -c conda-forge "conda>=4.13.0"
-
+conda install -y -n base -c conda-forge gdal
 pip install pandas scikit-image empatches scikit-learn scipy numpy
+
 # pip install Pyarrow
 # pip install --upgrade numpy