diff --git a/coin/provisioning/qtci-linux-openSUSE-16.0-x86_64/08-pythondev.sh b/coin/provisioning/qtci-linux-openSUSE-16.0-x86_64/08-pythondev.sh
index 4056ac0c..dd8dbf3e 100644
--- a/coin/provisioning/qtci-linux-openSUSE-16.0-x86_64/08-pythondev.sh
+++ b/coin/provisioning/qtci-linux-openSUSE-16.0-x86_64/08-pythondev.sh
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ set -ex
 source "${BASH_SOURCE%/*}/../common/unix/SetEnvVar.sh"
 
 # install python3
-sudo zypper -nq install python313-base python313-devel python313-pip python313-virtualenv python313-wheel
+sudo zypper -nq install python313-base python313-devel python313-pip python313-virtualenv python313-wheel libexpat1>=2.7.1-160000.3.1
 python3.13 -m pip install selenium netifaces scache brotli httpcompressionserver
 python3.13 -m pip install -r "${BASH_SOURCE%/*}/../common/shared/requirements.txt"