diff --git a/core/ubuntu_build_deps.sh b/core/ubuntu_build_deps.sh
index 911046aa1f..6f3fabc084 100755
--- a/core/ubuntu_build_deps.sh
+++ b/core/ubuntu_build_deps.sh
@@ -9,4 +9,6 @@ sudo apt-get -y update && sudo apt-get -y install intel-mkl-gnu-2019.5-281 intel
 sudo apt-get install -y gfortran libmysqlclient-dev mysql-client libcurl4-openssl-dev libboost-system-dev \
 libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-serialization-dev libboost-regex-dev
 
-sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysqlclient.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysqlclient_r.so
+if [ ! -f "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysqlclient_r.so" ]; then
+    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysqlclient.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysqlclient_r.so
+fi