diff --git a/.github/workflows/gtrepo_level.yml b/.github/workflows/gtrepo_level.yml
index 92cfcf0..c4ee0ee 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/gtrepo_level.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/gtrepo_level.yml
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ jobs:
        git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OCR-D/core
        cd core
        sudo make deps-ubuntu
+       python3 -m venv $HOME/venv         
+       source $HOME/venv/bin/activate     
+       pip install -U pip 'setuptools>=61'
+       pip install ocrd
        make install
        cd ..
        rm -rf core