diff --git a/scripts/install-essentials b/scripts/install-essentials
index 99d9cd4..17f017f 100755
--- a/scripts/install-essentials
+++ b/scripts/install-essentials
@@ -6,28 +6,16 @@ IFS=$'\n\t'
 # We install `git-core` as some tooling expect `/usr/bin/git`
 # other tools that rely on PATH ordering will pick a one in `/usr/local`
 # if present
-function install_debian_bullseye_deps() {
+function install_debian_deps() {
     apt-get install -y \
-            curl wget build-essential apt-utils clang locales openssh-client \
-            libclang-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline-dev llvm-dev zlib1g-dev \
-            libncurses5-dev libffi-dev ca-certificates libxml2-dev \
-            libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libicu-dev \
-            logrotate python3-docutils pkg-config cmake \
-            libkrb5-dev postgresql-client unzip \
-            libsqlite3-dev libpq-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libzstd-dev \
-            libre2-dev libevent-dev gettext rsync git-core lsb-release
-}
-
-function install_debian_bookworm_deps() {
-    apt-get install -y \
-            curl wget build-essential apt-utils clang locales openssh-client \
-            libclang-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline-dev llvm-dev zlib1g-dev \
-            libncurses5-dev libffi-dev ca-certificates libxml2-dev \
-            libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libicu-dev \
-            logrotate python3-docutils pkg-config cmake \
-            libkrb5-dev postgresql-client unzip \
-            libsqlite3-dev libpq-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libzstd-dev \
-            libre2-dev libevent-dev gettext rsync git-core lsb-release
+            apt-utils build-essential ca-certificates clang cmake curl \
+            gettext git-core libclang-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libevent-dev \
+            libffi-dev libicu-dev libjpeg-dev libkrb5-dev libncurses5-dev \
+            libpng-dev libpq-dev libre2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev \
+            libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libyaml-dev libzstd-dev \
+            llvm-dev locales logrotate lsb-release openssh-client pkg-config \
+            postgresql-client python3-docutils rsync shellcheck unzip wget \
+            zlib1g-dev
 }
 
 function prepare_debian_environment() {
@@ -38,10 +26,8 @@ function prepare_debian_environment() {
     VERSION=`cat /etc/issue | cut -d ' ' -f 3`
 
     case "$VERSION" in
-        11)
-            install_debian_bullseye_deps;;
-        12)
-            install_debian_bookworm_deps;;
+        11|12)
+            install_debian_deps;;
     esac
 
     # Set UTF-8