diff --git a/projects/wget/Dockerfile b/projects/wget/Dockerfile
index 8e8c5ef79a21..10e598d506cf 100644
--- a/projects/wget/Dockerfile
+++ b/projects/wget/Dockerfile
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
  gettext \
  autogen \
  autopoint \
- autoconf \
  autoconf-archive \
  automake \
  libtool \
@@ -39,6 +38,13 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
  libtasn1-bin \
  libz-dev
 
+RUN cd /usr/src && \
+        curl -oautoconf-2.71.tar.gz https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.71.tar.gz && \
+	tar xf autoconf-2.71.tar.gz && \
+	cd autoconf-2.71 && \
+	./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var && \
+	make install
+
 ENV GNULIB_TOOL $SRC/gnulib/gnulib-tool
 ENV GNULIB_SRCDIR $SRC/gnulib
 RUN git clone https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/gnulib-mirror.git gnulib