diff --git a/manifest.scm b/manifest.scm
index d1742a02d350c786edeae622f200425054513802..385f7ed7f20cd19c14b26f5ca5cde0ca9cc59578 100644
--- a/manifest.scm
+++ b/manifest.scm
@@ -125,30 +125,30 @@
     (specifications->manifest
       (list
         "bash-minimal"
-        "glibc-locales"
-        "glibc-bootstrap"
+        "proot-static"
         "grep"
         "which"
         "coreutils"
-        ;; "build"
-        ;; "git-minimal"
-        ;; "sed"
-
         "pkg-config"
+
+        "glibc-locales"
+        "glibc-bootstrap"
         "openssh"
         "automake"
-        ;; "libtool"
         "cmake"
         "make"
-        ;; "proot"
-        "gcc-toolchain@12.2.0"
 
+        "gcc-toolchain@12.2.0"
         "openmpi"
         "openmpi-c++"
+
         "python-toolchain@3.9.9"
         "python-jinja2"
         "python-py-cpuinfo"
         "pybind11"
+        ;; needs that extra channel guix-hpc, currently I do not know to encode that here in that manifest file
+        "likwid"
+
         ))
     (packages->manifest
       (list python-lbmpy python-pystencils))