diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/run-tests.yaml b/.gitea/workflows/run-tests.yaml
index aaeca83..615af2e 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/run-tests.yaml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/run-tests.yaml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
           cache: 'npm'
           cache-dependency-path: Development/server/package-lock.json
 
-      - name: Install MongoDB runtime compatibility libraries
+      - name: Prepare MongoDB runtime compatibility libraries
         run: |
           set -e
 
@@ -51,30 +51,26 @@ jobs:
             exit 0
           fi
 
-          if ! command -v apt-get >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-            echo "apt-get is not available on this runner; cannot install libssl1.1 automatically"
+          LIBSSL_DIR="${RUNNER_TEMP:-/tmp}/libssl11"
+          DEB_PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP:-/tmp}/libssl1.1.deb"
+          mkdir -p "$LIBSSL_DIR"
+
+          if [ ! -f "$DEB_PATH" ]; then
+            curl -fsSL \
+              -o "$DEB_PATH" \
+              "http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl1.1_1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.24_amd64.deb"
+          fi
+
+          dpkg-deb -x "$DEB_PATH" "$LIBSSL_DIR"
+
+          LIB_DIR="$LIBSSL_DIR/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu"
+          if [ ! -f "$LIB_DIR/libcrypto.so.1.1" ]; then
+            echo "libcrypto.so.1.1 was not found after extracting $DEB_PATH"
             exit 1
           fi
 
-          if command -v sudo >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-            SUDO=sudo
-          else
-            SUDO=
-          fi
-
-          . /etc/os-release
-
-          if [ "${ID:-}" = "ubuntu" ]; then
-            echo "deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security main" | $SUDO tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/focal-security.list >/dev/null
-          elif [ "${ID:-}" = "debian" ]; then
-            echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main" | $SUDO tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bullseye.list >/dev/null
-          else
-            echo "Unsupported distro for automatic libssl1.1 install: ${ID:-unknown}"
-            exit 1
-          fi
-
-          $SUDO apt-get update
-          $SUDO apt-get install -y libssl1.1
+          echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LIB_DIR${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "Prepared OpenSSL 1.1 compatibility libraries in $LIB_DIR"
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         env: