diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile.ngen-deps b/docker/Dockerfile.ngen-deps
index 27cfc39..5a730e2 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile.ngen-deps
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile.ngen-deps
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ ENV WORKDIR=${WORKDIR} \
     NETCDF_FORTRAN_VERSION=${NETCDF_FORTRAN_VERSION} \
     HYDRA_HOST_FILE=/etc/opt/hosts
 
-COPY --from=downloads /boost ${WORKDIR}/boost 
+COPY --from=downloads /boost /tmp/ngen-deps 
 COPY --from=downloads /tmp/mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz /tmp/ngen-deps/mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz  
 COPY --from=downloads /tmp/hdf5-${HD5_VERSION}.tar.gz /tmp/ngen-deps/hdf5-${HD5_VERSION}.tar.gz 
 COPY --from=downloads /tmp/netcdf-${NETCDF_C_VERSION}.tar.gz /tmp/ngen-deps/netcdf-${NETCDF_C_VERSION}.tar.gz 
@@ -163,15 +163,7 @@ RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip \
     && make \
     && make install \
     # Install required python dependency packages with Pip \
-    # Except blosc2, since packaged wheels on pypi seem to have some issues, build it ourselves
-    && cd /tmp/ngen-deps \
-    && git clone https://github.com/Blosc/python-blosc2/ \
-    && cd python-blosc2 \
-    # checkout a release tag
-    && git checkout ${BLOSC2_VERSION} \ 
-    && git submodule update --init --recursive \
-    && python3 -m pip install -r requirements-build.txt \
-    && pip3 install . \
+    && pip3 install blosc2 \
     && pip3 install numpy pandas pyyaml bmipy Cython==3.0.3 netCDF4==1.6.3 wheel packaging \
     && HDF5_DIR=/usr pip3 install -v --no-build-isolation tables \
     # Make aliases for convenience \
@@ -180,8 +172,9 @@ RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip \
     && alias python='python3'  \
     && echo "alias python='python3'" >> /etc/profile \
     # Also set up boost here, since we copied the download but only just installed bzip2 to work with it \
-    && cd ${BOOST_ROOT} \
+    && cd /tmp/ngen-deps \
     && tar -xjf boost_${BOOST_VERSION//./_}.tar.bz2 \
+    && mv boost_${BOOST_VERSION//./_} ${BOOST_ROOT} \
     && rm boost_${BOOST_VERSION//./_}.tar.bz2 \
     && rm -rf /tmp/ngen-deps