diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 49c8f8830c039ce95178fec8cfa5ad821a518d8e..71872abe4e2a8523fbce6b59d1d6d77986ec5ba2 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -203,18 +203,13 @@ RUN apt-get install -y android-sdk-libsparse-utils bc bison bsdmainutils build-e
       zip zlib1g-dev
 
 # Install Python 2.7 for legacy device support
-RUN apt-get install -y build-essential zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libgdbm-dev \
-    libnss3-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev libffi-dev libsqlite3-dev libbz2-dev
-
-RUN cd /tmp && \
-    wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.18/Python-2.7.18.tgz && \
-    tar xzf Python-2.7.18.tgz && \
-    cd Python-2.7.18 && \
-    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared --enable-optimizations && \
-    make -j$(nproc) && \
-    make altinstall && \
-    ln -sf /usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python2 && \
-    cd / && rm -rf /tmp/Python-2.7.18*
+RUN wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/python2.7/python2.7_2.7.18-13ubuntu1_amd64.deb && \
+    wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/python2.7/libpython2.7-stdlib_2.7.18-13ubuntu1_amd64.deb && \
+    wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/python2.7/python2.7-minimal_2.7.18-13ubuntu1_amd64.deb && \
+    wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/python2.7/libpython2.7-minimal_2.7.18-13ubuntu1_amd64.deb && \
+    dpkg -i *.deb || apt-get install -f -y && \
+    rm -f *.deb && \
+    ln -sf /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python2
 
 RUN curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > /usr/local/bin/repo
 RUN chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/repo
diff --git a/Dockerfile.community b/Dockerfile.community
index 6cb78fd54fa0ce218eb60c0e7a9ee76393ad04b8..d7b0d823c2f8383b290b3d3ee481c32c2f1ae5ee 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.community
+++ b/Dockerfile.community
@@ -186,18 +186,13 @@ RUN apt-get install -y android-sdk-libsparse-utils bc bison bsdmainutils build-e
       zip zlib1g-dev
 
 # Install Python 2.7 for legacy device support
-RUN apt-get install -y build-essential zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libgdbm-dev \
-    libnss3-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev libffi-dev libsqlite3-dev libbz2-dev
-
-RUN cd /tmp && \
-    wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.18/Python-2.7.18.tgz && \
-    tar xzf Python-2.7.18.tgz && \
-    cd Python-2.7.18 && \
-    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared --enable-optimizations && \
-    make -j$(nproc) && \
-    make altinstall && \
-    ln -sf /usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python2 && \
-    cd / && rm -rf /tmp/Python-2.7.18*
+RUN wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/python2.7/python2.7_2.7.18-13ubuntu1_amd64.deb && \
+    wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/python2.7/libpython2.7-stdlib_2.7.18-13ubuntu1_amd64.deb && \
+    wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/python2.7/python2.7-minimal_2.7.18-13ubuntu1_amd64.deb && \
+    wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/python2.7/libpython2.7-minimal_2.7.18-13ubuntu1_amd64.deb && \
+    dpkg -i *.deb || apt-get install -f -y && \
+    rm -f *.deb && \
+    ln -sf /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python2
 
 RUN curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > /usr/local/bin/repo
 RUN chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/repo