diff --git a/backend/Dockerfile b/backend/Dockerfile
index bbb5b568..77094093 100644
--- a/backend/Dockerfile
+++ b/backend/Dockerfile
@@ -8,17 +8,18 @@ WORKDIR /backend
 
 COPY requirements.txt .
 
-RUN : \
-    && apt-get update -y \
-    && export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
-    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+# Install system dependencies for NLTK and GDAL
+RUN apt-get update -y && \
+    export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
         binutils libproj-dev gdal-bin \
-    && apt-get autoremove -y \
-    && apt-get clean -y \
-    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
-    && python -m pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip \
-    && pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt \
-    && :
+        gcc g++ && \
+    apt-get autoremove -y && \
+    apt-get clean -y && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
+    python -m pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip && \
+    pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt && \
+    python -m nltk.downloader punkt averaged_perceptron_tagger wordnet stopwords
 
 COPY manage.py .
 
@@ -28,6 +29,4 @@ COPY user/ ./user
 
 EXPOSE 8000
 
-
-
 CMD python manage.py makemigrations && python manage.py migrate && python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000