diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 95539fc2ff9df6838143616df39cc1424c88478f..8bb523131e18fec7bd5dbc9e68252c7890115746 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ stages:
 build:
     <<: *global_tag_def
     stage: build
+    before scipt:
+        - python3 -m pip install scipy==1.11.3 --user
     script:
         - git submodule init
         - git submodule update
diff --git a/blast/tests/dart/rae2822_3D.py b/blast/tests/dart/rae2822_3D.py
index 3fc0fcabc66e9ccb9d072073ab564c58cfa200bc..92add204f23003a64aff362bc9f3755b54a66905 100644
--- a/blast/tests/dart/rae2822_3D.py
+++ b/blast/tests/dart/rae2822_3D.py
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ def cfgBlast(verb):
         'sections' : np.linspace(0.01, 0.95, 30),
         'writeSections': [0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0],
         'Sym':[0.],
-        'span':1.,
+        'span': 1.,
         'interpolator': 'Rbf',
         'rbftype': 'linear',
         'smoothing': 1e-8,