diff --git a/.github/scripts/Linux/download_build_sdl.sh b/.github/scripts/Linux/download_build_sdl.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 056043ba6..000000000
--- a/.github/scripts/Linux/download_build_sdl.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh -eu
-
-mkdir -p /var/tmp/sdl
-cd /var/tmp/sdl
-
-# v2.0.22 requires wayland-client version 1.18.0 but in U18.04 is only 1.16.0
-curl -sSLO https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/download/release-2.0.20/SDL2-2.0.20.tar.gz
-tar xaf SDL2*tar*
-cd SDL2-2.0.20
-./configure
-make -j "$(nproc)"
-sudo make install # SDL needs to be installed here because it is a dependency for the below
-cd ..
-
-git clone -b SDL2 --depth 1 https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_mixer
-cd SDL_mixer
-./configure
-make -j "$(nproc)"
-sudo make install
-cd ..
-
-# v2.0.18 and further require automake 1.16 but U18.04 has only automake 1.15.1
-git clone -b release-2.0.15 --depth 1 https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_ttf
-cd SDL_ttf
-./autogen.sh # to allow automake 1.15.1
-./configure
-make -j "$(nproc)"
-sudo make install
-cd ..
-
diff --git a/.github/scripts/Linux/install_sdl.sh b/.github/scripts/Linux/install_sdl.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index b276e8f1e..000000000
--- a/.github/scripts/Linux/install_sdl.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh -eu
-
-cd /var/tmp/sdl/SDL2-2.0.20
-sudo make install
-cd ../SDL_mixer
-sudo make install
-cd ../SDL_ttf
-sudo make install
-
diff --git a/.github/scripts/Linux/prepare.sh b/.github/scripts/Linux/prepare.sh
index 27fc9bd52..b10f74f8a 100755
--- a/.github/scripts/Linux/prepare.sh
+++ b/.github/scripts/Linux/prepare.sh
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ sudo apt --no-install-recommends install nvidia-cuda-toolkit
 sudo apt install libglew-dev libglfw3-dev
 sudo apt install libglm-dev
 sudo apt install libx11-dev
+sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev
 sudo apt install libsoxr-dev libspeexdsp-dev
 sudo apt install libssl-dev
 sudo apt install libasound-dev libjack-jackd2-dev libnatpmp-dev libv4l-dev portaudio19-dev
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ccpp.yml b/.github/workflows/ccpp.yml
index f01230dbb..166306d72 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ccpp.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ccpp.yml
@@ -104,18 +104,6 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install Cached FFmpeg
       if: steps.cache-ffmpeg.outputs.cache-hit == 'true'
       run: .github/scripts/Linux/install_ffmpeg.sh
-    - name: Cache SDL
-      id: cache-sdl
-      uses: actions/cache@v3
-      with:
-        path: '/var/tmp/sdl'
-        key: cache-sdl-${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles( '.github/scripts/Linux/prepare.sh', '.github/scripts/Linux/download_build_sdl.sh' ) }}
-    - name: Build SDL
-      if: steps.cache-sdl.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
-      run: .github/scripts/Linux/download_build_sdl.sh
-    - name: Install Cached SDL
-      if: steps.cache-sdl.outputs.cache-hit == 'true'
-      run: .github/scripts/Linux/install_sdl.sh
     - name: configure
       run: "./autogen.sh --enable-plugins ${{ env.CUDA_FEATURES }} ${{ env.FEATURES }} --enable-alsa --enable-v4l2 || { RC=$?; cat config.log; exit $RC; }"
     - name: make