diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index b219e444..aba98540 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 # Frappe Bench Dockerfile
 
-FROM ubuntu:16.04
+FROM debian:9.6-slim
 LABEL author=frappé
 
 # Set locale C.UTF-8 for mariadb and general locale data
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
 
 # Install all neccesary packages
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends iputils-ping git build-essential \
-  libffi-dev libssl-dev libjpeg8-dev redis-tools software-properties-common libxext6 xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base \
-  python-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev python-tk libsasl2-dev libldap2-dev libtiff5-dev \
-  python-setuptools tk8.6-dev wget libmysqlclient-dev mariadb-client curl rlwrap wkhtmltopdf python-pip sudo \
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends build-essential cron curl git iputils-ping libffi-dev \
+  liblcms2-dev libldap2-dev libmariadbclient-dev libsasl2-dev libssl-dev libtiff5-dev libwebp-dev mariadb-client \
+  python-dev python-pip python-setuptools python-tk redis-tools rlwrap software-properties-common sudo tk8.6-dev \
+  vim xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base wget wkhtmltopdf \
   && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
   && pip install --upgrade setuptools pip --no-cache \
   && curl https://deb.nodesource.com/node_10.x/pool/main/n/nodejs/nodejs_10.10.0-1nodesource1_amd64.deb > node.deb \