diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-cd-renv.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-cd-renv.yml
index 29162ee..4c36b10 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-cd-renv.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-cd-renv.yml
@@ -48,18 +48,13 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install system dependencies
         # This is not taken care of (yet) by r-lib/actions/setup-renv
-        # We need the development version of remotes to support Ubuntu 22.04 and
-        # for querying system requirements for multiple pkgs (r-lib/remotes#665)
         # We could use pak-based installation for renv, which includes system
         # requirements, but would have to handle the pak cache explicitly
         # See https://github.com/r-lib/actions/issues/785
         run: |
-          Rscript -e "install.packages(c('remotes', 'distro', 'jsonlite'))"
-          Rscript -e "remotes::install_github('r-lib/remotes')"
-          while read -r cmd
-          do
-            eval sudo $cmd
-          done < <(Rscript -e 'writeLines(with(distro::distro(), remotes::system_requirements(id, short_version, package = names(jsonlite::read_json("renv.lock")$Packages))))')
+          install.packages(c("pak", "jsonlite"))
+          pak::sysreqs_fix_installed(names(jsonlite::read_json("renv.lock")$Packages))
+        shell: Rscript {0}
 
       - name: Activate renv and restore packages with cache
         uses: r-lib/actions/setup-renv@v2