diff --git a/build_config/build_req_deb.txt b/build_config/build_req_deb.txt
index aa3e4c6075a..ea62e07b2ef 100644
--- a/build_config/build_req_deb.txt
+++ b/build_config/build_req_deb.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ pipx
 plantuml
 pre-commit
 python-is-python3
+python3-build
 python3-dev
+python3-pip
 python3-setuptools
 swig
 xvfb
diff --git a/build_config/docker/Dockerfile.ubuntu.git b/build_config/docker/Dockerfile.ubuntu.git
index a7c8599fe02..d891ad04dc6 100644
--- a/build_config/docker/Dockerfile.ubuntu.git
+++ b/build_config/docker/Dockerfile.ubuntu.git
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ FROM ubuntu:jammy
 
 ENV SUMO_HOME=/usr/share/sumo
 ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+ARG JUPEDSIM_VERSION=v1.2.1
 
 RUN apt-get -y update
 RUN apt-get -y install git
@@ -24,6 +25,11 @@ RUN apt-get -y install libopenscenegraph-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev
 # packages needed for the tools (some are also listed in tools/requirements.txt but we prefer the ubuntu packages)
 RUN apt-get -y install $(cat /opt/sumo/build_config/tools_req_deb.txt)
 
+# JuPedSim
+RUN cd /opt; git clone -b $JUPEDSIM_VERSION https://github.com/PedestrianDynamics/jupedsim
+RUN cd /opt; cmake -B jupedsim-build -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=jupedsim-install jupedsim; \
+ cmake --build jupedsim-build -j4 --config Release; cmake --install jupedsim-build --config Release; rm -rf jupedsim-build
+
 # python packages needed for the tools (the ones where we do not have ubuntu packages)
 RUN pip3 install -r /opt/sumo/tools/requirements.txt
 # python packages needed for the docs (the ones where we do not have ubuntu packages)