diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index c416ebdef8..203dab9377 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ variables:
 test:mysql:
   script:
   - pip install -r requirements/testing.txt
-  - pip install -q mysql-python mysql-client
+  - pip install -q mysql-python
+  - apt-get install -qq mysql-client
   - mysql -h"$MYSQL_PORT_3306_TCP_ADDR" -P"$MYSQL_PORT_3306_TCP_PORT" -uroot -p"$MYSQL_ENV_MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD" -e "ALTER DATABASE $MYSQL_DATABASE CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;"
   - coverage run manage.py test $MAYAN_TEST_APPS --settings=mayan.settings.testing.gitlab-ci.db_mysql --nomigrations
   - bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codecov/codecov-bash/master/codecov) -t $CODECOV_TOKEN