diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate.yml b/.github/workflows/validate.yml
index 4c43e3f..4cdb8e5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/validate.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/validate.yml
@@ -25,5 +25,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
             python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
             pip install reproschema
+            npm install -g jsonlint
     -   name: validate
         run: make validate
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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6fc9b3f..777772d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -18,13 +18,10 @@ clean_artemis:
 
 validate: validate_syntax validate_schema
 
-package.json:
-	npm install `cat npm-requirements.txt`
-
 # Validate jsonld
-validate_syntax: package.json
-	grep -r  "@context" response_options | cut -d: -f1 | xargs -I fname jsonlint -q fname
-	grep -r  "@context" schemas | cut -d: -f1 | xargs -I fname jsonlint -q fname
+validate_syntax:
+	grep -r  "@context" response_options | cut -d: -f1 | xargs -I {} jsonlint -q {}
+	grep -r  "@context" schemas | cut -d: -f1 | xargs -I {} jsonlint -q {}
 
 # you will need to install reproschema-py to run this one ( pip install reproschema )
 validate_schema: