diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 8f34b5fe27..02c814ad82 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -161,7 +161,15 @@ fdroid build:
     - export PYTHONPATH="`pwd`/fdroidserver:$CI_PROJECT_DIR/tools"
     - export PYTHONUNBUFFERED=true
 
+    - bash fdroidserver/buildserver/setup-env-vars $ANDROID_HOME
+    - adduser --disabled-password --gecos "" vagrant
+    - ln -s $CI_PROJECT_DIR/fdroidserver /home/vagrant/fdroidserver
+    - mkdir -p /vagrant/cache
+    - wget -q https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.6.2-bin.zip
+          --output-document=/vagrant/cache/gradle-5.6.2-bin.zip
+    - bash fdroidserver/buildserver/provision-gradle
     - bash fdroidserver/buildserver/provision-apt-get-install http://deb.debian.org/debian
+    - source /etc/profile.d/bsenv.sh
     - apt-get dist-upgrade
 
     # install fdroidserver from git, with deps from Debian, until fdroidserver