diff --git a/docker/hailgenetics/vep/grch38/95/Dockerfile b/docker/hailgenetics/vep/grch38/95/Dockerfile
index b38e348cb24..9b442cbe3fe 100644
--- a/docker/hailgenetics/vep/grch38/95/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/hailgenetics/vep/grch38/95/Dockerfile
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ARG BASE_IMAGE={{ hail_ubuntu_image.image }}
 FROM $BASE_IMAGE
 
-ENV VEP_VERSION 95
-ENV VEP_DIR /vep
+ENV VEP_VERSION=95
+ENV VEP_DIR=/vep
 
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y install \
     build-essential \
@@ -26,15 +26,16 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y install \
     tabix \
     unzip \
     vim \
-    wget
-
-RUN cpanm DBI \
-    DBD::mysql \
-    DBD::SQLite \
-    Archive::Zip \
-    PerlIO::gzip \
-    Set::IntervalTree \
-    JSON || { for i in /root/.cpanm/work/*/build.log; do echo $i; cat $i; done }
+    wget \
+    libarchive-zip-perl \
+    libdbd-mysql-perl \
+    libdbd-sqlite3-perl \
+    libdbi-perl \
+    libipc-run-perl \
+    libjson-perl \
+    libperlio-gzip-perl \
+    libset-intervaltree-perl \
+    libxml-libxml-perl
 
 RUN mkdir ${VEP_DIR}
 WORKDIR ${VEP_DIR}
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ WORKDIR ${VEP_DIR}
 RUN git clone -b release/95.1 https://github.com/Ensembl/ensembl-vep.git && \
     cd ensembl-vep && \
     perl INSTALL.pl -a a --NO_UPDATE && \
-    echo "#!/bin/bash" > /vep/vep && \
+    echo '#!/bin/bash' > /vep/vep && \
     echo "export PERL5LIB=\$PERL5LIB:${VEP_DIR}/ensembl-vep/Plugins/" >> /vep/vep && \
     echo "exec perl ${VEP_DIR}/ensembl-vep/vep \"\$@\"" >> /vep/vep && \
     chmod +x /vep/vep && \