diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index d4433fea2076264a0b0dcd9950371afe705c0bfd..d11387f29e0976b2c72c247e9da7031b267bed7c 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+variables:
+  FLASHDEPS: python3
+             python3-coloredlogs
+             python3-jenkins
+             python3-requests
+             python3-tqdm
+             python3-yaml
 
 .tags: &tags
   tags:
@@ -31,3 +38,16 @@ build:deb:
   artifacts:
     paths:
       - '*.deb'
+
+test:download:
+  <<: *tags
+  stage: test
+  before_script:
+    - export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+    - apt-get -y update
+    - apt-get -y install $FLASHDEPS
+  script:
+    - scripts/librem5-devkit-flash-image --skip-flash --skip-cleanup --dir=download/
+    - ls -l download/devkit.img download/flash_devkit.lst  download/u-boot-devkit-recovery.imx
+    - rm -rf download
+