diff --git a/utils/tests/gitlab-ci-code-linting.yml b/utils/tests/gitlab-ci-code-linting.yml
index 7d87a2d00..6ea920c9c 100644
--- a/utils/tests/gitlab-ci-code-linting.yml
+++ b/utils/tests/gitlab-ci-code-linting.yml
@@ -22,13 +22,28 @@ clang-tidy:
     - DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt install -y
       clang cmake
       clang-tidy-14
+      python3 python3-pip
+      libboost-all-dev
+      libgtk-3-dev
+      gsl-bin libgsl-dev libgsl27
+      libopenmpi-dev
+      libsqlite3-dev
+      ssh
+    - pip3 install cppyy
   script:
-    - ./ns3 configure --enable-clang-tidy -d debug --enable-examples --enable-tests
+    - ./ns3 configure -d debug
+      --enable-clang-tidy
+      --enable-examples --enable-tests
+      --enable-asserts
+      --enable-mpi
+      --enable-python-bindings
     - run-clang-tidy-14 -p cmake-cache/ -quiet
       1> clang-tidy-errors.log
       2> /dev/null
     - (! egrep -A 3 "error:|warning:" clang-tidy-errors.log)
     - echo "No clang-tidy errors found"
+  variables:
+    MPI_CI: 1
   artifacts:
     paths:
       - clang-tidy-errors.log