diff --git a/.docker-base/Dockerfile b/.docker-base/Dockerfile
index 592922471aa83d5175b1fbc1d355be8b547966a1..2152183a410302df34d35ec6f514399678e0baaf 100644
--- a/.docker-base/Dockerfile
+++ b/.docker-base/Dockerfile
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ FROM docker:19.03.0
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
 
 # install dependencies
-RUN apk add --no-cache py-pip python-dev py3-pip python3 python3-dev gcc make \
+RUN apk add --no-cache py3-pip python3 python3-dev gcc make \
     git bash curl gettext  py3-requests 
 RUN apk add --no-cache libffi-dev openssl-dev libc-dev libxslt libxslt-dev \
     libxml2 libxml2-dev
-RUN pip install docker-compose==1.25
+RUN pip3 install docker-compose==1.25
 
 # Script for waiting on LA server
 COPY wait-for-it.sh /opt/caosdb/wait-for-it.sh