diff --git a/buildscripts/build_dependencies.sh b/buildscripts/build_dependencies.sh
index 41530c213..bb536224e 100755
--- a/buildscripts/build_dependencies.sh
+++ b/buildscripts/build_dependencies.sh
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ wget -qO- https://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.13.tar.gz | tar xvz
 wget -qO- https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.14/hdf5-1.14.1/src/hdf5-1.14.1-2.tar.gz | tar xvz 
 wget -qO- https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/archive/refs/tags/v4.9.2.tar.gz | tar xvz 
 wget -qO- https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-fortran/archive/refs/tags/v4.6.1.tar.gz | tar xvz 
-
+cd $ROOT_DIR
 printf "*********************************************************\n"
 printf "*          STARTING DEPENDENCY BUILD                    *\n"
 printf "*********************************************************\n"