diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile.conda b/docker/Dockerfile.conda
index 5deab0b3898547bd8087fd0f0e6ea74c8b8b58a2..05eba22fd9200f209b4d8c55b537fefe18877b53 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile.conda
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile.conda
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ FROM conda/miniconda3:latest
 
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
 ENV LC_ALL C.UTF-8
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
 
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
         # all the hard non-Python dependencies
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile.debian b/docker/Dockerfile.debian
index 31e6934a61ac912847fac505ba5db9644c491374..28288faaf8475b83d304ea659524c138e079c523 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile.debian
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile.debian
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ FROM debian:latest
 
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
 ENV LC_ALL C.UTF-8
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
 
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
         gnupg dirmngr apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile.ubuntu b/docker/Dockerfile.ubuntu
index 85434711af3cab3a66e6f07294246d402b5a08ad..bca1da6d69d62419692587e54a2b18ad732fb0f7 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile.ubuntu
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile.ubuntu
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ FROM ubuntu:16.04
 
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
 ENV LC_ALL C.UTF-8
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
 
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
         gnupg dirmngr apt-transport-https software-properties-common