diff --git a/contrib/teamcity/build-configurations.yml b/contrib/teamcity/build-configurations.yml
--- a/contrib/teamcity/build-configurations.yml
+++ b/contrib/teamcity/build-configurations.yml
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@
       JEST_JUNIT_OUTPUT_NAME: "cashtab.xml"
     script: |
       pushd "${TOPLEVEL}/web/cashtab"
-      npm install
+      npm ci
       npm run build
 
       # Make sure the report is available even if the tests fail
diff --git a/contrib/teamcity/setup-debian-buster.sh b/contrib/teamcity/setup-debian-buster.sh
--- a/contrib/teamcity/setup-debian-buster.sh
+++ b/contrib/teamcity/setup-debian-buster.sh
@@ -25,3 +25,6 @@
 # rebasing, or cherry-picking of commits just work out of the box.
 git config --global user.name "abc-bot"
 git config --global user.email "no-email-abc-bot@bitcoinabc.org"
+
+# npm uses ssh to connect to github by default, use https instead
+git config --global url."https://github.com".insteadOf ssh://git@github.com
diff --git a/contrib/utils/install-dependencies.sh b/contrib/utils/install-dependencies.sh
--- a/contrib/utils/install-dependencies.sh
+++ b/contrib/utils/install-dependencies.sh
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
 
 BACKPORTS=(
   cmake
+  npm
   shellcheck
 )