diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index e980ac7609..7f0a740f57 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
-          sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev libgirepository1.0-dev
+          sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev libgirepository1.0-dev python3-gi gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0
           pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
           pip install -r requirements-ci.txt
           pip install -e .
@@ -122,7 +122,8 @@ jobs:
           pip install -e .
 
       - name: Test with pytest
+        shell: bash
         run: |
           python -c 'import libtorrent as lt; print(lt.__version__)';
           python -c 'from twisted.internet import gireactor; reactor = gireactor.install()'
-          python -v -c "import pytest; retcode = pytest.main(['--full-trace','--showlocals','-vvv','-ra','-m "not (todo or security)"','deluge']); print(f'pytest returned: {retcode}')"; 
+          python -v -c "import pytest; retcode = pytest.main(['--full-trace','--showlocals','-vvv','-ra','-m \'not (todo or security)\'','deluge']); print(f'pytest returned: {retcode}')"; 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2f4c78083c..a22d3d334c 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -546,6 +546,7 @@ def run(self):
     #   https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/1510
     'pyasn1',
     'rencode',
+    'pygobject',
     'pyopenssl',
     'pyxdg',
     'mako',