diff --git a/tasks/rosetta/install_checkit_tiff.yml b/tasks/rosetta/install_checkit_tiff.yml
index ecbc31e0229c49ce295f493dcbcfc2b4362c5a6d..a9a3b887c011a81d65670749a37385bb304468b6 100644
--- a/tasks/rosetta/install_checkit_tiff.yml
+++ b/tasks/rosetta/install_checkit_tiff.yml
@@ -6,3 +6,9 @@
       "pcre",
     ]
     state: latest
+
+- name: create symlink to the version of the libpcre kernel module that checkit_tiff expects
+  file:
+    src: "/usr/lib64/libpcre.so.1"
+    dest: "/usr/lib64/libpcre.so.3"
+    state: symlink