diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 8a0d1c1..6c275ec 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -33,28 +33,12 @@
 
     - start_section install_linux_packages "Installing missing Linux packages"
     - mkdir -pv $APT_CACHE_DIR ccache
-    - apt-get update && apt-get -o dir::cache::archives="$APT_CACHE_DIR" -y install ccache cmake libgflags-dev libsnappy-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev liblz4-dev libzstd-dev libomp-dev
+    - apt-get update && apt-get -o dir::cache::archives="$APT_CACHE_DIR" -y install ccache cmake librocksdb-dev libgflags-dev libsnappy-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev liblz4-dev libzstd-dev libomp-dev
     # ccache only makes the build faster, it must never be able to make it fail,
     # so everything that uses it is guarded and CCACHE_OPTS stays empty without it
     - if CCACHE=$(command -v ccache); then ln -sf "$CCACHE" /usr/local/sbin/gcc && ln -sf "$CCACHE" /usr/local/sbin/g++ && CCACHE_OPTS="-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache"; else echo "ccache is not available - building without it"; CCACHE_OPTS=""; fi
     - end_section install_linux_packages
 
-    - start_section install_rocksdb_static "Building and installing rocksdb-static"
-    - git clone https://github.com/kupietz/rocksdb.git -b 5.11.fb --single-branch
-    - cd rocksdb
-    - export PROCS=$(nproc)
-    - make -j $PROCS static_lib DISABLE_WARNING_AS_ERROR=1 WARNING_FLAGS=-w
-    - command -v ccache > /dev/null && ccache --show-stats || true
-    - make install-static DISABLE_WARNING_AS_ERROR=1 WARNING_FLAGS=-w
-    - end_section install_rocksdb_static
-
-    - start_section install_rocksdb_shared "Building and installing rocksdb-shared"
-    - make -j $PROCS shared_lib DISABLE_WARNING_AS_ERROR=1 WARNING_FLAGS=-w
-    - make install-shared DISABLE_WARNING_AS_ERROR=1 WARNING_FLAGS=-w
-    - ldconfig
-    - cd ..
-    - end_section rocksdb_shared
-
     - start_section install_collocatordb "Building and installing collocatordb"
     - git clone "https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/gerrit/ids-kl/collocatordb"
     - cd collocatordb