diff --git a/docker/fradrive/Dockerfile b/docker/fradrive/Dockerfile
index 5e4e37c8e..37b18884e 100644
--- a/docker/fradrive/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/fradrive/Dockerfile
@@ -1,34 +1,30 @@
-# When making changes to and/or building fradrive-env locally, 
-# please remember to use the full url below as tag for the 
-# local image to ensure that the local instead of the upstream 
-# image will be used!
-# TODO: switch to pinned versions instead of latest!
-FROM registry.uniworx.de/fradrive/fradrive/fradrive-env:latest
+FROM debian:12.5
 
-USER root
+RUN apt-get -y update
 
-# Install uniworx binary
-WORKDIR /fradrive-src
-# RUN make clean # TODO: to discuss whether to invalidate all caches beforehand
-RUN make bin/uniworx
+# setup locales
+RUN apt-get -y install locales locales-all
+RUN sed -i '/en_US.UTF-8/s/^# //g' /etc/locale.gen && \
+    locale-gen
+ENV LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US:en LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
 
-# Runtime dependencies
+# Binary runtime dependencies
 # TODO: minimize texlive dependencies, switch to basic schemes where possible
 RUN apt-get -y install texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-extra texlive-luatex texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texlive-lang-english texlive-lang-german
 
-# TODO: build container (see nix build)
-
-# TODO: remove build dependencies (e.g. nodejs)
-
+# Add uniworx user and directories
 RUN mkdir -p /var/lib
+RUN mkdir -p /var/log
 RUN groupadd -r uniworx
 RUN useradd -r -g uniworx -d /var/lib/uniworx -M uniworx --uid 999
-RUN install -d -g uniworx -o uniworx -m 0750 /var/lib/uniworx
-RUN mkdir -p /var/log
-RUN install -d -g uniworx -o uniworx -m 0755 /var/log/uniworx
+RUN mkdir -p /var/lib/uniworx && chown -R uniworx:uniworx /var/lib/uniworx
+RUN mkdir -p /var/log/uniworx && chown -R uniworx:uniworx /var/log/uniworx
+
+# TODO: is this still needed?
+# RUN install -d -g uniworx -o uniworx -m 0750 /var/lib/uniworx
+# RUN install -d -g uniworx -o uniworx -m 0755 /var/log/uniworx
 
 USER uniworx
-
 ENTRYPOINT fradrive-entrypoint.sh
 EXPOSE 8080/tcp
-VOLUME /var/lib/uniworx /var/log
+VOLUME /var/lib/uniworx /var/log
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diff --git a/docker/fradrive/fradrive-entrypoint.sh b/docker/fradrive/fradrive-entrypoint.sh
index 9f92bb4b4..fcb816715 100644
--- a/docker/fradrive/fradrive-entrypoint.sh
+++ b/docker/fradrive/fradrive-entrypoint.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/nix/store/r0wrj1l79j267np3z5i657pnprsd74fq-zsh-5.8/bin/zsh -xe
+#!/bin/bash -xe
 
 cTime=$(date -Is)
 
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ configs+=('/nix/store/mr2s10y1pj1fx594gjx0qlvc704n1j00-uni2work.yml')
 
 cd /var/lib/uniworx
 
-exec -- uniworx ${configs}
+exec -- uniworx ${configs}
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