diff --git a/apps/remix-ide/ci/downloadsoljson.sh b/apps/remix-ide/ci/downloadsoljson.sh
index 6f7f10b081..e3598e90bc 100644
--- a/apps/remix-ide/ci/downloadsoljson.sh
+++ b/apps/remix-ide/ci/downloadsoljson.sh
@@ -8,26 +8,14 @@ then
     exit
 fi
 
-# install jq if not installed
-if ! command -v jq &> /dev/null
-then
-    echo "jq could not be found"
-    echo "installing jq"
-    sudo apt-get install jq
-fi
-if ! command -v jq &> /dev/null
-then
-    echo "jq could not be found"
-    exit
-fi
 
 # download https://binaries.soliditylang.org/wasm/list.json as json
 curl https://binaries.soliditylang.org/wasm/list.json > list.json
 # get the latest version
-version=$(cat list.json | jq -r '.latestRelease')
+version=$(cat list.json | npx jq -r '.latestRelease')
 echo $version
 # the value of releases with key $version
-url=$(cat list.json | jq -r '.releases[]' | grep "$version+")
+url=$(cat list.json | npx jq -r '.releases[]' | grep "$version+")
 echo $url
 # set path to the url
 path="https://binaries.soliditylang.org/bin/$url"