diff --git a/install b/install
index ccd22031e..f6b03e558 100755
--- a/install
+++ b/install
@@ -546,6 +546,10 @@ $PIP install --upgrade setuptools~=58.0
 ########################################################################################
 
 section "Shared"
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2046
+install_packages $(list_packages "$SCRIPT_DIR/shared")
+
 install_python_app "$SCRIPT_DIR/shared"
 
 section "API client"
diff --git a/shared/packages.ini b/shared/packages.ini
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4eb363a60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shared/packages.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# This file contains a list of package dependencies.
+[tzdata]
+tzdata = buster, bullseye, bookworm, bionic, focal, jammy