diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 08321660e..f688ede33 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 image: debian:stretch-slim
 
 build_ubuntu_18_04:
   stage: build
   image: ubuntu:bionic
   #only:
   #  - merge_requests
   before_script:
     - sed -i -e 's/# deb-src/deb-src/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
     - apt-get update
     - apt-get build-dep --yes --no-install-recommends umbrello
-    - apt-get install --yes --no-install-recommends ninja-build libkf5crash-dev curl ca-certificates git
+    - apt-get install --yes --no-install-recommends ninja-build libkf5crash-dev curl ca-certificates git gawk
   script:
     - REPO=$(git remote -v | gawk '{print $2}')
-    - BRANCH=$(git branch | sed 's,\*,,g')
+    - BRANCH=$(git branch | gawk '{print $2}'')
     - sh -x maintainer/ci-build.sh $REPO $BRANCH