diff --git a/INSTALL/openalpr-gpu-easy.sh b/INSTALL/openalpr-gpu-easy.sh
index f78e3615..06903f19 100644
--- a/INSTALL/openalpr-gpu-easy.sh
+++ b/INSTALL/openalpr-gpu-easy.sh
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ if ! [ -x "$(command -v opencv_version)" ]; then
 else
     echo "OpenCV found... : $(opencv_version)"
 fi
+# get tesseract repo because ubuntu repo is serving a broken version
+sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alex-p/tesseract-ocr -y
+sudo apt-get update
 # this includes all the ones missing from OpenALPR's guide.
 sudo apt install libtesseract-dev git cmake build-essential libleptonica-dev -y
 sudo apt install liblog4cplus-dev libcurl3-dev -y