diff --git a/.github/workflows/of.yml b/.github/workflows/of.yml
index 350ca11b2d7..54c041ebc78 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/of.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/of.yml
@@ -331,10 +331,11 @@ jobs:
     env:
       TARGET: ${{matrix.cfg.target}}
     steps:
-      - name: Remove Old lib-unwind
-        run: if [ "$TARGET" = "linux64" ]; then
-          sudo apt-get remove libunwind-14 -y;
-          fi
+# handled by the install script now 
+#      - name: Remove Old lib-unwind
+#        run: if [ "$TARGET" = "linux64" ]; then
+#          sudo apt-get remove libunwind-14 -y;
+#          fi
       - name: Cache Packages
         uses: awalsh128/cache-apt-pkgs-action@latest
         with:
diff --git a/scripts/linux/ubuntu/install_dependencies.sh b/scripts/linux/ubuntu/install_dependencies.sh
index 43c395428cf..c0e4b87d157 100755
--- a/scripts/linux/ubuntu/install_dependencies.sh
+++ b/scripts/linux/ubuntu/install_dependencies.sh
@@ -206,8 +206,8 @@ fi
 #jammy needs libunwind-dev installed before gstreamer
 #and some additional packages
 if [ $MAJOR_VERSION -gt 21 ]; then
-installPackages "libunwind-dev"
-
+echo "Ensuring latest libunwind-dev is installed..."
+apt-get ${FORCE_YES} -qq install --only-upgrade libunwind-dev || installPackages libunwind-dev
 PACKAGES+=" libharfbuzz-dev"
 PACKAGES+=" gstreamer1.0-vaapi"
 PACKAGES+=" gstreamer1.0-libav"