diff --git a/roles/calibre-web/tasks/install.yml b/roles/calibre-web/tasks/install.yml
index 1bbb6623b..0bae3428c 100644
--- a/roles/calibre-web/tasks/install.yml
+++ b/roles/calibre-web/tasks/install.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
       - imagemagick
       - python3-venv
       #- python3-dev
-      - build-essential
+      - build-essential    # 2023-03-18: Needed (e.g. on Ubuntu 22.04) now that scripts/ansible no longer installs python3-pip
     state: present
 
 - name: Allow ImageMagick to read PDFs, per /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml, to create book cover thumbnails