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+name: Test core installation and run ocrd network integration tests
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ "master" ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ "master" ]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python-version:
+          - '3.7'
+          - '3.8'
+          - '3.9'
+          - '3.10'
+          - '3.11'
+        os:
+          - ubuntu-22.04
+          - ubuntu-20.04
+          - macos-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Set up Homebrew
+        id: set-up-homebrew
+        uses: Homebrew/actions/setup-homebrew@master
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          if [[ "${{ matrix.os }}" == "ubuntu"* ]];then
+            sudo apt-get -y update
+            sudo make deps-ubuntu
+          else
+            HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALLED_DEPENDENTS_CHECK=1 \
+            HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 \
+            brew install imagemagick geos bash  # opencv
+          fi
+          make install deps-test
+      - name: Test with pytest
+        run: |
+          make test integration-test
+      - name: test to ensure that --editable install works
+        run: |
+          make install-dev; ocrd --version
+      - name: Lint with flake8
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install flake8
+          # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
+          flake8 src --count --exit-zero --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
+          # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
+          flake8 src --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics