diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 9ad7d82905094b03ab093b10e99fefd3747e03aa..4f3689e1c77f5276f6d30192b4633f4e8df7acb9 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,17 +1,12 @@
 image: rocker/verse:4.4.1
 
-variables:
-  QUARTO_VERSION: "1.5.57"  # Specify the desired Quarto version
-
-before_script:
-  # Install Quarto
-  - wget https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/download/v$QUARTO_VERSION/quarto-$QUARTO_VERSION-linux-amd64.deb
-  - sudo dpkg -i quarto-$QUARTO_VERSION-linux-amd64.deb
-  - quarto check install  # Ensure Quarto is installed properly
-  
 pages:
   stage: deploy
   before_script:    
+  # Install Quarto
+  - wget https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/download/v$QUARTO_VERSION/quarto-1.5.57-linux-amd64.deb
+  - sudo dpkg -i quarto-$QUARTO_VERSION-linux-amd64.deb
+  - quarto check install  # Ensure Quarto is installed properly
   - R -e "install.packages('remotes')"  # This package is used to be able to install packages defining their versions0  
   #- R -e "remotes::install_version('quarto',version = '1.4')" # This is used for publishing the website 
   - R -e "remotes::install_version('kableExtra', version = '1.4.0')"  # This is used for rendering a table