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Nektos Act allows you to run your GitHub Actions workflows locally, which is useful for testing before pushing changes.
Before you begin, you need to have Docker installed on your Ubuntu system, as Nektos Act relies on Docker to run GitHub Actions locally.

Installation

cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/nektos/act/releases/download/v0.2.76/act_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvf act_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin act

act --version

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