diff --git a/src/jekyll-devcontainer/src/.devcontainer/Dockerfile b/src/jekyll-devcontainer/src/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
index 17fd968..bada7fb 100644
--- a/src/jekyll-devcontainer/src/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/jekyll-devcontainer/src/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
 FROM --platform=linux/amd64 mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/jekyll:2-bullseye
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source=https://github.com/NHSDigital/nhs-notify-repository-template
+
+COPY packages.txt packages.txt
+
+RUN apt-get update && xargs apt-get -y install < packages.txt
diff --git a/src/jekyll-devcontainer/src/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/src/jekyll-devcontainer/src/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
index 26d7357..63cda70 100644
--- a/src/jekyll-devcontainer/src/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
+++ b/src/jekyll-devcontainer/src/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -63,7 +63,9 @@
     }
   },
   "features": {
-    "./nhsnotify": {},
+    "./nhsnotify": {
+      "version": "1.0.1"
+    },
     "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/aws-cli:1": {
       "version": "latest"
     },
diff --git a/src/jekyll-devcontainer/src/.devcontainer/nhsnotify/devcontainer-feature.json b/src/jekyll-devcontainer/src/.devcontainer/nhsnotify/devcontainer-feature.json
index f79300c..c971196 100644
--- a/src/jekyll-devcontainer/src/.devcontainer/nhsnotify/devcontainer-feature.json
+++ b/src/jekyll-devcontainer/src/.devcontainer/nhsnotify/devcontainer-feature.json
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
   "id": "nhsnotify",
   "name": "Notify Custom",
   "postCreateCommand": "zsh /postcreatecommand.sh",
-  "version": "1.0.0"
+  "version": "1.0.1"
 }
diff --git a/src/jekyll-devcontainer/src/.devcontainer/packages.txt b/src/jekyll-devcontainer/src/.devcontainer/packages.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27df288
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/jekyll-devcontainer/src/.devcontainer/packages.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+ca-certificates
+fonts-liberation
+libasound2
+libatk-bridge2.0-0
+libatk1.0-0
+libc6
+libcairo2
+libcups2
+libdbus-1-3
+libexpat1
+libfontconfig1
+libgbm1
+libgcc1
+libglib2.0-0
+libgtk-3-0
+libnspr4
+libnss3
+libpango-1.0-0
+libpangocairo-1.0-0
+libstdc++6
+libx11-6
+libx11-xcb1
+libxcb1
+libxcomposite1
+libxcursor1
+libxdamage1
+libxext6
+libxfixes3
+libxi6
+libxrandr2
+libxrender1
+libxss1
+libxtst6
+lsb-release
+wget
+xdg-utils