diff --git a/scripts/install-essentials b/scripts/install-essentials
index 038cc9d..e25b84e 100755
--- a/scripts/install-essentials
+++ b/scripts/install-essentials
@@ -78,7 +78,17 @@ function prepare_debian_environment() {
 }
 
 function prepare_ubi_environment() {
-    echo "UBI preparation scripts"
+    yum update -y
+
+    yum install -by --nodocs \
+                autoconf cmake gcc gcc-c++ make patch perl bzip2 \
+                libedit ncurses uuid libarchive curl-devel \
+                libicu-devel libffi-devel libuuid-devel openssl-devel \
+                ncurses-devel pcre2-devel zlib-devel libstdc++-static \
+                libevent-devel redhat-lsb-core procps-ng
+
+    yum autoremove -y
+    yum clean -y all
 }
 
 if [[ $1 =~ debian ]]; then