diff --git a/tutornotes/templates/notes/build/notes/Dockerfile b/tutornotes/templates/notes/build/notes/Dockerfile
index 4fea8b4..ba3aefc 100644
--- a/tutornotes/templates/notes/build/notes/Dockerfile
+++ b/tutornotes/templates/notes/build/notes/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.4
-FROM docker.io/python:3.12-slim-bookworm
+FROM docker.io/ubuntu:24.04
 
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apt,sharing=locked \
@@ -7,18 +7,17 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apt,sharing=locked \
   apt update && \
   apt upgrade -y && \
   apt install -y \
-    locales \
+    language-pack-en \
     git \
-    python3-dev \
-    build-essential \
-    default-libmysqlclient-dev \
-    pkg-config && \
-  sed -i '/en_US.UTF-8/s/^# //g' /etc/locale.gen && \
-  locale-gen
-ENV LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+    python3 \
+    python3-pip \
+    python3-venv \
+    libmysqlclient-dev \
+    pkg-config
+RUN ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python
 
 ###### Git-clone Notes repo ######
-ARG APP_USER_ID=1000
+ARG APP_USER_ID=1001
 RUN useradd --home-dir /app --create-home --shell /bin/bash --uid ${APP_USER_ID} app
 USER ${APP_USER_ID}
 
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ ENV PATH=/app/venv/bin:${PATH}
 # https://pypi.org/project/setuptools/
 # https://pypi.org/project/pip/
 # https://pypi.org/project/wheel/
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/app/.cache/pip,sharing=shared pip install setuptools==69.2.0 pip==24.0 wheel==0.43.0
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/app/.cache/pip,sharing=shared pip install setuptools==74.1.0 pip==24.2 wheel==0.44.0
 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/app/.cache/pip,sharing=shared pip install -r requirements/base.txt
 
 EXPOSE 8000