diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile-dhvirtualenv b/docker/Dockerfile-dhvirtualenv
index 2013732422ce..bad92360af0c 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile-dhvirtualenv
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile-dhvirtualenv
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ RUN env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install \
         ca-certificates \
         devscripts \
         equivs \
-        wget
+        wget \
+        python-dev
 
 # fetch and unpack the package
 # We are temporarily using a fork of dh-virtualenv due to an incompatibility with Python 3.11, which ships with