diff --git a/Dockerfile.external b/Dockerfile.external
index 545a11c7..790e5ab4 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.external
+++ b/Dockerfile.external
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ WORKDIR /home/worker/app
 COPY pyproject.toml poetry.lock ./
 
 ARG POETRY_EXTRAS="ui vector-stores-qdrant llms-ollama embeddings-ollama"
-RUN poetry install --extras "${POETRY_EXTRAS}"
+RUN poetry install --no-root --extras "${POETRY_EXTRAS}"
 
 FROM base as app
 ENV \
diff --git a/Dockerfile.local b/Dockerfile.local
index 949c662c..659c2082 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.local
+++ b/Dockerfile.local
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ WORKDIR /home/worker/app
 COPY pyproject.toml poetry.lock ./
 
 ARG POETRY_EXTRAS="ui embeddings-huggingface llms-llama-cpp vector-stores-qdrant"
-RUN poetry install --extras "${POETRY_EXTRAS}"
+RUN poetry install --no-root --extras "${POETRY_EXTRAS}"
 
 FROM base as app