diff --git a/azure-pipelines.yml b/azure-pipelines.yml
index aaf2445b..51b92771 100644
--- a/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
       versionSpec: '3.6'
       architecture: 'x64'
   - script: |
-      apt-get install -y libgtk-3-dev ninja-build
+      sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev ninja-build
       # Ubuntu typically comes with an outdated meson
       python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
       pip install meson