diff --git a/utils/tests/gitlab-ci-doc.yml b/utils/tests/gitlab-ci-doc.yml
index 8972d21e6..51883c5ea 100644
--- a/utils/tests/gitlab-ci-doc.yml
+++ b/utils/tests/gitlab-ci-doc.yml
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@
 .doc:
   stage: documentation
   before_script:
-    - apt-get update
-    - DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y tzdata
-    - apt-get install -y doxygen graphviz make imagemagick dia texlive texlive-font-utils python3-sphinx latexmk texlive texlive-science texlive-formats-extra texlive-base python3-jinja2 python3-pygments texlive-fonts-extra
-    - apt-get --quiet install git gcc g++ python python3 python-dev qt5-default openmpi-bin openmpi-common openmpi-doc libopenmpi-dev gsl-bin libgsl-dev ccache flex bison libfl-dev sqlite sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libgtk-3-dev libboost-all-dev --yes
-    - sed -i "s/EPS,PDF,//g" /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml
-    - sed -i "s/none/read\ |\ write/g" /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml
-  image: ubuntu
+    - pacman -Syu --noconfirm
+    - pacman -Sy base-devel python ccache gsl libgcrypt gtk3 boost --noconfirm
+    - pacman -Sy git doxygen graphviz imagemagick dia texlive-core texlive-bin texlive-latexextra python-sphinx --noconfirm
+    - sed -i "s/EPS,PDF,//g" /etc/ImageMagick-7/policy.xml
+    - sed -i "s/none/read\ |\ write/g" /etc/ImageMagick-7/policy.xml
+  image: archlinux
+  timeout: 2h
 #  artifacts:
 #    paths:
 #      - public