diff --git a/.github/github-ci.sh b/.github/github-ci.sh
index 1e1c992af..e7de65746 100644
--- a/.github/github-ci.sh
+++ b/.github/github-ci.sh
@@ -13,5 +13,6 @@ sed -i "s|OVERLAY_LOCATION.*|OVERLAY_LOCATION=rootfs|" ../src/.config
 
 sudo apt-get -qq -y update
 sudo apt-get -qq -y upgrade
+sudo apt-get -qq -y install wget make gawk gcc bc xz-utils bison flex xorriso libelf-dev libssl-dev qemu-system-x86-64
 
 set +e
diff --git a/.github/test_qemu.sh b/.github/test_qemu.sh
index 1e3500953..67ce6956a 100644
--- a/.github/test_qemu.sh
+++ b/.github/test_qemu.sh
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ set -e
 
 cd ../src
 
-sudo apt-get -qq -y install qemu-system-x86-64
-
 echo "`date` | *** MLL QEMU test - BEGIN ***"
 
 qemu-system-x86_64 -m 256M -cdrom minimal_linux_live.iso -boot d -nographic &