diff --git a/dbld/images/devshell.dockerfile b/dbld/images/devshell.dockerfile
index b6db252b1..1b2fe28c8 100644
--- a/dbld/images/devshell.dockerfile
+++ b/dbld/images/devshell.dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ARG CONTAINER_REGISTRY
-FROM $CONTAINER_REGISTRY/axosyslog-dbld-tarball:latest
+FROM $CONTAINER_REGISTRY/axosyslog-dbld-ubuntu-noble:latest
 
 ARG ARG_IMAGE_PLATFORM
 ARG COMMIT
diff --git a/dbld/packages.manifest b/dbld/packages.manifest
index 839ab59c1..69e40b002 100644
--- a/dbld/packages.manifest
+++ b/dbld/packages.manifest
@@ -42,16 +42,19 @@ which				[fedora]
 #############################################################################
 # eBPF related tools
 #############################################################################
-clang				[tarball]
-libbpf-dev			[tarball]
-bpftool				[tarball]
+clang				[tarball, devshell]
+libbpf-dev			[tarball, devshell]
+bpftool				[tarball, devshell]
+# as long as devshell is based on ubuntu and not tarball
+linux-tools-common		[devshell]
+linux-tools-generic		[devshell]
 
 #############################################################################
 # Tarball related tools
 #############################################################################
 
 # docbook to generate man pages
-docbook-xsl                     [tarball]
+docbook-xsl                     [tarball, devshell]
 docbook-style-xsl               [fedora]
 
 #############################################################################
@@ -128,7 +131,8 @@ libglib2.0-0t64-dbgsym          [devshell]
 libjemalloc-dev                 [devshell]
 libjemalloc2-dbgsym             [devshell]
 libssl3t64-dbgsym               [devshell]
-linux-perf                      [devshell]
+libjson-c5-dbgsym		[devshell]
+libpcre2-8-0-dbgsym		[devshell]
 locales                         [devshell]
 lsof                            [devshell]
 netcat-openbsd                  [devshell]
diff --git a/dbld/rules b/dbld/rules
index a39431df8..94824939f 100755
--- a/dbld/rules
+++ b/dbld/rules
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ shell-%: setup
 
 images: $(foreach image,$(IMAGES), image-$(image))
 image: image-$(DEFAULT_IMAGE)
-image-devshell: image-tarball
+image-devshell: image-ubuntu-noble
 image-tarball: image-debian-testing
 image-%:
 	$(DBLD_DIR)/prepare-image-build $* && \