diff --git a/packer/provision/basebuild.sh b/packer/provision/basebuild.sh
index 057c98d..aba8b19 100644
--- a/packer/provision/basebuild.sh
+++ b/packer/provision/basebuild.sh
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@
     yum install -y firefox python-tox xmlstarlet xvfb crudini maven
 
     # Install chrome to support ChromeDriver
-    cat <<EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
+    cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
 [google-chrome]
-name=google-chrome
-baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/$basearch
+name=google-chrome - \$basearch
+baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/\$basearch
 enabled=1
 gpgcheck=1
 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
diff --git a/packer/provision/baseline.sh b/packer/provision/baseline.sh
index d97f0e2..cae373e 100644
--- a/packer/provision/baseline.sh
+++ b/packer/provision/baseline.sh
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
     # separate group installs from package installs since a non-existing
     # group with dnf based systems (F21+) will fail the install if such
     # a group does not exist
-    yum install -y unzip xz puppet git git-review perl-XML-XPath wget make
+    yum install -y unzip xz puppet git git-review perl-XML-XPath wget make npm
 
     # All of our systems require Java (because of Jenkins)
     # Install all versions of the OpenJDK devel but force 1.7.0 to be the
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
 
     # add in stuff we know we need
     echo "---> Installing base packages"
-    apt-get install unzip xz-utils puppet git git-review libxml-xpath-perl make wget
+    apt-get install -y unzip xz-utils puppet git git-review libxml-xpath-perl make wget npm
 
     # install Java 7
     echo "---> Configuring OpenJDK"