diff --git a/Dockerfile.cli b/Dockerfile.cli
index e8966f7bb660..2eee97a0939e 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.cli
+++ b/Dockerfile.cli
@@ -52,3 +52,7 @@ ENV DSPACE_INSTALL=/dspace
 COPY --from=ant_build /dspace $DSPACE_INSTALL
 # Give java extra memory (1GB)
 ENV JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx1000m
+
+# Step 4 - copy missing jar (xalan) to the app/dspace/lib
+WORKDIR /app
+ADD /lib/* /dspace/lib/
diff --git a/lib/xalan-2.7.0.jar b/lib/xalan-2.7.0.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..007be3960a2c
Binary files /dev/null and b/lib/xalan-2.7.0.jar differ