diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1b97d02fc..ae5b648d1 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -145,24 +145,22 @@ else
 endif
 # If Souffle cannot be installed, we advise the user to install it manually
 # and return status code 0, which is not considered a failure.
-# Souffle depends upon the libffiX library, where X is the current version it requires. Depending on the version of Ubuntu being used, the exact library
-# may not be present. In this script, we manually download and install version 7 on the Ubuntu operating system.
 .PHONY: souffle
 souffle:
 	if ! command -v souffle; then \
 	  echo "Installing system dependency: souffle" && \
 	  case $(OS_DISTRO) in \
 	    "Oracle Linux") \
-	      sudo dnf -y install https://github.com/souffle-lang/souffle/releases/download/2.4/x86_64-oraclelinux-8-souffle-2.4-Linux.rpm;; \
+	      sudo dnf -y install https://github.com/souffle-lang/souffle/releases/download/2.5/x86_64-oraclelinux-9-souffle-2.5-Linux.rpm;; \
 	    "Fedora Linux") \
-	      sudo dnf -y install https://github.com/souffle-lang/souffle/releases/download/2.4/x86_64-fedora-34-souffle-2.4-Linux.rpm;; \
+	      sudo dnf -y install https://github.com/souffle-lang/souffle/releases/download/2.5/x86_64-fedora-41-souffle-2.5-Linux.rpm;; \
 	    "Ubuntu") \
 	      sudo wget https://souffle-lang.github.io/ppa/souffle-key.public -O /usr/share/keyrings/souffle-archive-keyring.gpg; \
 	      echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/souffle-archive-keyring.gpg] https://souffle-lang.github.io/ppa/ubuntu/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/souffle.list; \
 	      sudo apt update; \
-	      sudo wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libf/libffi/libffi7_3.3-4_amd64.deb; \
-		  sudo dpkg -i libffi7_3.3-4_amd64.deb; \
-	      rm libffi7_3.3-4_amd64.deb; \
+          sudo wget https://github.com/souffle-lang/souffle/releases/download/2.5/x86_64-ubuntu-2404-souffle-2.5-Linux.deb; \
+		  sudo apt install ./x86_64-ubuntu-2404-souffle-2.5-Linux.deb; \
+		  rm x86_64-ubuntu-2404-souffle-2.5-Linux.deb; \
 	      sudo apt install souffle;; \
 	    "Darwin") \
 	      if command -v brew; then \