diff --git a/containers/docker/Dockerfile b/containers/docker/Dockerfile
index 0d11a3db77d31a6b386bd70f968cd038efb82a6e..09e2652a5a1aeac3aec5440f3f52b03961e3b9ec 100644
--- a/containers/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/containers/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ COPY --chown=root:root containers/docker/dockerstuff/intelcomps/oneapi-archive-k
 COPY --chown=root:root containers/docker/dockerstuff/intelcomps/oneAPI.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
 RUN apt update
 RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt -y install intel-oneapi-compiler-fortran intel-oneapi-compiler-dpcpp-cpp-and-cpp-classic intel-oneapi-compiler-dpcpp-cpp
+# install lapacke and its dependencies, both standard and the version with 64 bit integers
+RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt -y install liblapacke-dev liblapacke64-dev libopenblas-dev libopenblas-openmp-dev libopenblas64-dev libopenblas64-openmp-dev
 # install packages needed to run python scripts for checks
 RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt -y install python3 python-is-python3 python3-regex
 # install packages needed to run doxygen to create html docs