diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index b9f00ba1b1..b78e2f2448 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 FROM ubuntu:focal AS build
 
 # Install curl and simplex-chat-related dependencies
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl git build-essential libgmp3-dev zlib1g-dev
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl git build-essential libgmp3-dev zlib1g-dev libssl-dev
 
 # Install ghcup
 RUN a=$(arch); curl https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghcup/$a-linux-ghcup -o /usr/bin/ghcup && \
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ WORKDIR /project
 # Adjust PATH
 ENV PATH="/root/.cabal/bin:/root/.ghcup/bin:$PATH"
 
+# Adjust build
+RUN cp ./scripts/cabal.project.local.linux ./cabal.project.local
+
 # Compile simplex-chat
 RUN cabal update
 RUN cabal install
diff --git a/scripts/cabal.project.local.linux b/scripts/cabal.project.local.linux
index d5a06b7d81..267e54edf6 100644
--- a/scripts/cabal.project.local.linux
+++ b/scripts/cabal.project.local.linux
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 ignore-project: False
 
-# amend to point to the actual openssl location
 package direct-sqlcipher
-    extra-include-dirs: /usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/include
-    extra-lib-dirs: /usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/lib
     flags: +openssl
 
 test-show-details: direct