diff --git a/docker-examples/cuda-12.4/Dockerfile b/docker-examples/cuda-12.4/Dockerfile
index 9cba4ebbc..efd640207 100644
--- a/docker-examples/cuda-12.4/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker-examples/cuda-12.4/Dockerfile
@@ -21,29 +21,28 @@ RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y wget git ca-certificates libssl-dev
 RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y build-essential cmake
 
 ## Cuda/Cudatoolkit
-RUN wget --no-check-certificate https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/$distro/$arch/cuda-$distro.pin && \
+RUN wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/$distro/$arch/cuda-$distro.pin && \
   mkdir -p /etc/apt/preferences.d/ && \
   mv cuda-$distro.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600 && \
-  wget --no-check-certificate https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/12.4.0/local_installers/cuda-repo-$distro-12-4-local_12.4.0-550.54.14-1_amd64.deb
+  wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/12.4.0/local_installers/cuda-repo-$distro-12-4-local_12.4.0-550.54.14-1_amd64.deb
 RUN dpkg -i cuda-repo-$distro-12-4-local_12.4.0-550.54.14-1_amd64.deb && \
   cp /var/cuda-repo-$distro-12-4-local/cuda-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ && \
   apt-get update -y && apt-get -y install cuda-toolkit-12-4
 # cudnn
-RUN wget --no-check-certificate https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/$distro/$arch/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb && \
+RUN wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/$distro/$arch/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb && \
   dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb && \
   apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y cudnn9-cuda-12
 
 # cleanup
 RUN rm -rf /cuda-repo-$distro-12-4-local_12.4.0-550.54.14-1_amd64.deb /cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb 
 
-# Python, pip, and venv (add specific packages for individual tests)
-RUN apt-get install python3 python3-venv -y
+## Python, pip
+RUN apt-get install python3 -y
 RUN ln -s `which python3` /usr/bin/python
-
 # install pip this way due to https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/3269
-RUN wget --no-check-certificate https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py && python get-pip.py
+RUN wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py && python get-pip.py
 
-# final things
+## final things
 ENV CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda
 ENV CUDNN_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include
 ENV PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/cuda/bin