diff --git a/.github/workflows/nightly_Linux_distributions.yml b/.github/workflows/nightly_Linux_distributions.yml
index 2205669c..586e1ecc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nightly_Linux_distributions.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly_Linux_distributions.yml
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ jobs:
         CMAKE_FLAGS: -DEXIV2_TEAM_EXTRA_WARNINGS=OFF -DEXIV2_ENABLE_WEBREADY=ON -DEXIV2_ENABLE_CURL=ON -DEXIV2_BUILD_UNIT_TESTS=OFF -DEXIV2_ENABLE_BMFF=ON -DEXIV2_TEAM_WARNINGS_AS_ERRORS=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install
 
     steps:
+    - name: install tar in opensuse
+      run: |
+        distro_id=$(grep '^ID=' /etc/os-release|awk -F = '{print $2}'|sed 's/\"//g')
+        echo $distro_id
+        if [[ "$distro_id" == "opensuse-tumbleweed" ]]; then zypper --non-interactive install tar gzip; fi
+
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
     - name: install dependencies
       run: ./ci/install_dependencies.sh
diff --git a/ci/install_dependencies.sh b/ci/install_dependencies.sh
index 639bd694..35c57d6c 100755
--- a/ci/install_dependencies.sh
+++ b/ci/install_dependencies.sh
@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ case "$distro_id" in
         yum -y install gcc-c++ clang cmake make ccache expat-devel zlib-devel libssh-devel libcurl-devel gtest-devel which python3 dos2unix
         ;;
 
-    'opensuse'|'opensuse-tumbleweed')
+    'opensuse-tumbleweed')
         zypper --non-interactive refresh
-        zypper --non-interactive install gcc-c++ clang cmake make ccache libexpat-devel zlib-devel libssh-devel curl tar libcurl-devel git which dos2unix libxml2-tools gzip
+        zypper --non-interactive install gcc-c++ clang cmake make ccache libexpat-devel zlib-devel libssh-devel curl libcurl-devel git which dos2unix libxml2-tools
         pushd /tmp
           curl -LO https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/release-1.8.0.tar.gz
           tar xzf   release-1.8.0.tar.gz