diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 523d33af..0ae16dcc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -49,9 +49,10 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install system dependencies
         run: |
-             sudo apt remove libudunits2-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libproj-dev
-             sudo apt-get install libgit2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libudunits2-dev libgdal-dev libnetcdf-dev libgeos-dev libproj-dev
-
+          sudo apt-get -y update && sudo apt-get install -y \
+            libgit2-dev libicu-dev gdal-bin proj-data proj-bin libv8-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler \
+            libudunits2-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libproj-dev libfontconfig1-dev libjq-dev libmysqlclient-dev libpng-dev
+          sudo apt-get update
       - name: Install packages
         run: Rscript install-packages.R
 
diff --git a/install-packages.R b/install-packages.R
index d2ae6b58..a179c83b 100644
--- a/install-packages.R
+++ b/install-packages.R
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 if ("pacman" %in% rownames(installed.packages()) == FALSE) install.packages("pacman")
 
 # Install packages required for analysis
-
-pacman::p_load(git2r, httr, semver, sf, testthat, yaml,
+pacman::p_load(git2r, httr, semver, testthat, yaml,
                dplyr, lubridate, remotes)
 
 remotes::install_github("weecology/wader")