diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 6b8026111b..891dfcca2b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -34,9 +34,29 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     needs: activate
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
             submodules: recursive
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.11
+
+      - name: Locate Python Paths
+        run: |
+          echo "PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=$(which python)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=$(python -c 'import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_path(\"include\"))')" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "PYTHON_LIBRARY=$(python -c 'import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_config_var(\"LIBDIR\"))')/libpython3.11.so" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+        shell: bash
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install xmlschema xsdata numpy lxml pytest isodate lark networkx tabulate python-dateutil
+          pip install src/bcf --no-deps
+          pip install https://github.com/Andrej730/aud/archive/refs/heads/master-reduced-size.zip
+
       - name: Install C++ dependencies
         run: |
           sudo apt update
@@ -49,7 +69,6 @@ jobs:
           libboost-regex-dev \
           libboost-system-dev \
           libboost-thread-dev \
-          python3-all-dev python3-pip \
           swig libpcre3-dev libxml2-dev \
           libtbb-dev nlohmann-json3-dev \
           libocct-foundation-dev libocct-modeling-algorithms-dev libocct-modeling-data-dev libocct-ocaf-dev libocct-visualization-dev libocct-data-exchange-dev \
@@ -71,9 +90,9 @@ jobs:
                -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH=/usr \
                -DOCC_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/opencascade \
                -DOCC_LIBRARY_DIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \
-               -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=/usr/bin/python3 \
-               -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=/usr/include/python3.8 \
-               -DPYTHON_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.8.so \
+               -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=${{ env.PYTHON_EXECUTABLE }} \
+               -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=${{ env.PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR }} \
+               -DPYTHON_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=${{ env.PYTHON_LIBRARY }} \
                -DCOLLADA_SUPPORT=Off \
                "-DSCHEMA_VERSIONS=2x3;4;4x3_add1" \
                -DGLTF_SUPPORT=On \
@@ -102,23 +121,11 @@ jobs:
           grep 0$ statuses
           grep 0$ statuses | wc -l
 
-      - name: Install Python dependencies
-        run: |
-          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install -U pip
-          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install xmlschema xsdata numpy lxml
-          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install src/bcf --no-deps
-          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install pytest
-          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install isodate
-          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install lark
-          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install networkx
-          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install https://github.com/Andrej730/aud/archive/refs/heads/master-reduced-size.zip
-          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install tabulate
-          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install python-dateutil
 
-      - name: Test
+      - name: Test ifcopenshell-python
         run: |
           cd test
-          sudo /usr/bin/python tests.py
+          python tests.py
           cd ../src/ifcopenshell-python
           mv ifcopenshell ifcopenshell-local # Force testing on installed module
           make test-safe