diff --git a/.github/workflows/meson.yml b/.github/workflows/meson.yml
index f1a9484e0e8..ca0d9367670 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/meson.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/meson.yml
@@ -56,18 +56,45 @@ env:
 jobs:
   build-ubuntu:
     name: Ubuntu
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    container:
+      image: ubuntu:mantic
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install --assume-yes --no-install-recommends ${{ env.APT_PACKAGES }}
+          apt-get update
+          apt-get install --assume-yes --no-install-recommends \
+            bison \
+            default-libmysqlclient-dev \
+            file \
+            flex \
+            gcc \
+            libacl1-dev \
+            libavahi-client-dev \
+            libcrack2-dev \
+            libdb-dev \
+            libdbus-1-dev \
+            libdbus-glib-1-dev \
+            libevent-dev \
+            libgcrypt-dev \
+            libglib2.0-dev \
+            libkrb5-dev \
+            libldap2-dev \
+            libltdl-dev \
+            libpam0g-dev \
+            libssl-dev \
+            libtalloc-dev \
+            libtracker-sparql-3.0-dev \
+            libwrap0-dev \
+            meson \
+            ninja-build \
+            systemtap-sdt-dev \
+            tcpd \
+            tracker
       - name: Configure
         run: |
-          meson setup build
-            -Denable-pgp-uam=enabled \
-            -Dwith-docbook=/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl \
+          meson setup build \
             -Dbuild-tests=true
       - name: Build
         run: ninja -C build