diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
index a6bad82fd..edafeec24 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ RUN echo "deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main contrib non-fr
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
 
 # Install needed packages
+#
+# We're not including graphviz and ghostscript, needed for the 3 document
+# dependency graph tests; they would increase the size of the image by about
+# 15%, about 100MB.
+#
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -qy \
 	bzip2 \
 	ca-certificates \
@@ -39,6 +44,8 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -qy \
 	gawk \
 	ipython \
 	less \
+	libfreetype6 \
+	libfontconfig \
 	libjpeg8-dev \
 	libmysqlclient-dev \
 	libsvn1/wheezy-backports \
@@ -52,6 +59,8 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -qy \
 	python \
 	python-dev \
 	python-m2crypto \
+	python-subversion \
+	realpath \
 	rsync \
 	subversion/wheezy-backports \
 	sudo \
@@ -77,6 +86,13 @@ RUN wget -q https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py && python get-pip.py && rm get-
 RUN pip install certifi
 RUN pip install virtualenv
 
+# Phantomjs
+WORKDIR /usr/local
+RUN wget -q https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 \
+	&& tar xjf phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 
+WORKDIR /usr/local/bin
+RUN ln -s /usr/local/phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs .
+
 # idnits and dependencies
 RUN wget -q -P /usr/local/bin/ https://tools.ietf.org/tools/idnits/idnits && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/idnits
 
diff --git a/docker/docker-init.sh b/docker/docker-init.sh
index 8cf7d055f..67d727847 100644
--- a/docker/docker-init.sh
+++ b/docker/docker-init.sh
@@ -76,8 +76,14 @@ if [ ! -f $VIRTDIR/bin/activate ]; then
     chown $USER /opt/home/$USER
     mkdir $VIRTDIR
     virtualenv --system-site-packages $VIRTDIR
+    echo -e "
+# This is from $VIRTDIR/bin/activate, to activate the
+# datatracker virtual python environment on docker container entry:
+" >> /etc/bash.bashrc
     cat $VIRTDIR/bin/activate >> /etc/bash.bashrc
     cat /usr/local/share/datatracker/setprompt >> /etc/bash.bashrc 
+else
+    echo "Using virtual environment at $VIRTDIR"
 fi
 
 echo "Activating the virtual python environment ..."
diff --git a/docker/updatedb b/docker/updatedb
index 6209101ac..55fb91910 100755
--- a/docker/updatedb
+++ b/docker/updatedb
@@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ DATADIR=$parent/data
 # fi
 
 echo "Fetching database dump ..."
-wget -N -P $DATADIR http://www.ietf.org/lib/dt/sprint/ietf_utf8.sql.gz
+wget -S -N -P $DATADIR http://www.ietf.org/lib/dt/sprint/ietf_utf8.sql.gz || die "No new data, quitting."
+#rsync -u --progress zin.tools.ietf.org::tools/tools/ietf_utf8.sql.gz $DATADIR/ || die "No new data, quitting."
 
 echo "Loading database ..."
 gunzip < $DATADIR/ietf_utf8.sql.gz \