diff --git a/roles/openqa/server/tasks/main.yml b/roles/openqa/server/tasks/main.yml
index 89e6f2e1dc..b5304d6c3d 100644
--- a/roles/openqa/server/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/openqa/server/tasks/main.yml
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
 
 - name: Install various other required packages
   package:
-    name: ['python3-libselinux', 'git', 'json_diff', 'libselinux-utils', 'python3-libsemanage',
+    name: ['python3-libselinux', 'git', 'jq', 'libselinux-utils', 'python3-libsemanage',
            'nfs-utils', 'perl(Class::DBI::Pg)', 'expect', 'libguestfs-tools-c', 'libguestfs-xfs',
            'libvirt-daemon-config-network', 'libvirt-python3', 'python3-libguestfs',
            'virt-install', 'withlock', 'genisoimage']
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@
   changed_when: "1 != 1"
 
 - name: Check if the tests changed in previous step
-  shell: "/usr/share/openqa/script/dump_templates --json > /tmp/tmpl-new.json && json_diff /tmp/tmpl-old.json /tmp/tmpl-new.json"
+  shell: "/usr/share/openqa/script/dump_templates --json > /tmp/tmpl-new.json && diff <(jq -S . /tmp/tmpl-old.json) <(jq -S . /tmp/tmpl-new.json)"
   when: "(gittests is defined) and (gittests is changed)"
   register: testsdiff
   changed_when: "testsdiff.rc > 0"