diff --git a/.github/workflows/knownvar_bump.yml b/.github/workflows/knownvar_bump.yml
index 02acfa6..cb8f734 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/knownvar_bump.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/knownvar_bump.yml
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Install requirements
+        run: |
+          sudo apt install gawk wget git diffstat unzip texinfo gcc build-essential \
+               chrpath socat cpio python3 python3-pip python3-pexpect xz-utils debianutils \
+               iputils-ping python3-git python3-jinja2 python3-subunit zstd liblz4-tool \
+               file locales libacl1
+          sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
       - name: Bump known vars for master
         run: ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/scripts/generate-knownvars master ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/oelint_adv/data/master.json
         shell: bash