diff --git a/.github/dep-suggests-matrix.json b/.github/dep-suggests-matrix.json
deleted file mode 100644
index a51be77c..00000000
--- a/.github/dep-suggests-matrix.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-{"package":["clipr","constructive","debugme","devtools","lintr","RSQLite"]}
diff --git a/.github/versions-matrix.json b/.github/versions-matrix.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 5af4434a..00000000
--- a/.github/versions-matrix.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-{"include":[{"os":"macos-latest","r":"4.4"},{"os":"macos-latest","r":"4.3"},{"os":"windows-latest","r":"devel"},{"os":"windows-latest","r":"4.4"},{"os":"windows-latest","r":"4.3"},{"os":"ubuntu-22.04","r":"devel","http-user-agent":"release"},{"os":"ubuntu-22.04","r":"4.4"},{"os":"ubuntu-22.04","r":"4.3"},{"os":"ubuntu-22.04","r":"4.2"},{"os":"ubuntu-22.04","r":"4.1"},{"os":"ubuntu-22.04","r":"4.0"},{"os":"ubuntu-22.04","r":"4.4","covr":"true","desc":"with covr"}]}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
index d238a6bc..428cec13 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
@@ -66,7 +66,12 @@ jobs:
           cache-version: rcc-smoke-2
           needs: check, website
           # Beware of using dev pkgdown here, has brought in dev dependencies in the past
-          extra-packages: any::rcmdcheck r-lib/roxygen2 any::decor r-lib/styler pkgdown local::.
+          extra-packages: any::rcmdcheck r-lib/roxygen2 any::decor r-lib/styler pkgdown deps::.
+
+      - name: Install package
+        run: |
+          R CMD INSTALL .
+        shell: bash
 
       - uses: ./.github/workflows/custom/after-install
         if: hashFiles('.github/workflows/custom/after-install/action.yml') != ''
@@ -110,7 +115,7 @@ jobs:
           echo -n "${{ steps.commit.outputs.sha }}" > rcc-smoke-sha.txt
         shell: bash
 
-      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
           name: rcc-smoke-sha
           path: rcc-smoke-sha.txt