diff --git a/.github/workflows/posix-deps-apt.sh b/.github/workflows/posix-deps-apt.sh
index 56cc70edf60001..0119843e47eeb1 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/posix-deps-apt.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/posix-deps-apt.sh
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ apt-get -yq install \
     libbz2-dev \
     libffi-dev \
     libgdbm-dev \
+    libgdbm-compat-dev \
     liblzma-dev \
     libncurses5-dev \
     libreadline6-dev \