Clean up redundancies in runner setup

packer/cirun-runner.pkr.hcl

@@ -108,10 +108,6 @@ build {
     script = "scripts/install-docker.sh"
   }
 
-  provisioner "shell" {
-    script = "scripts/setup-runner.sh"
-  }
-
   provisioner "shell" {
     script = "scripts/install-nvidia-drivers.sh"
   }

packer/scripts/install-docker.sh

@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -e
 
-# Update package index
+# Update package index and bring the base image up to date first.
+# The Ubuntu 24.04 base AMI ships with older gnupg/libksba8/gpg-agent
+# packages; installing gnupg below pulls newer versions that require an
+# updated libksba8 (>= 1.6.3), which fails with "unmet dependencies"
+# unless the base packages are upgraded beforehand.
 sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get upgrade -y
 
 # Install packages to allow apt to use a repository over HTTPS
 sudo apt-get install -y \

packer/scripts/preinstall-tools.sh

@@ -10,22 +10,37 @@ sudo apt-get update
 sudo useradd -m -s /bin/bash runnerx
 sudo usermod -aG docker runnerx
 
-# Install essential tools from workflow analysis
+# Install AWS CLI v2
+curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
+unzip awscliv2.zip
+sudo ./aws/install
+rm -rf awscliv2.zip aws/
+
+# Install essential tools for CI runner 
 sudo apt-get install -y \
     jq \
     hub \
     xvfb \
     curl \
     wget \
-    unzip
-
-# Remove conflicting packages first
-sudo apt-get remove -y nodejs npm libnode-dev nodejs-doc || true
-sudo apt-get autoremove -y
-
-# Install Node.js 20 (version specified in workflow)
-curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | sudo -E bash -
-sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
+    unzip \
+    python3-pip \
+    python3-venv \
+    pipx \
+    uv \
+    git \
+    build-essential \
+    nodejs \
+    npm \
+    gh
+
+# # Remove conflicting packages first
+# sudo apt-get remove -y nodejs npm libnode-dev nodejs-doc || true
+# sudo apt-get autoremove -y
+
+# # Install Node.js 20 (version specified in workflow)
+# curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | sudo -E bash -
+# sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
 
 # Install miniconda for runnerx user (matching CI runner environment)
 sudo -u runnerx wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -O /home/runnerx/miniconda.sh
@@ -38,7 +53,6 @@ echo 'export PATH="/home/runnerx/miniconda3/bin:$PATH"' | sudo tee -a /home/runn
 # Install pipx for Python package management
 sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip python3-venv pipx
 
-
 # Create necessary directories
 sudo mkdir -p /opt/runnerx
 sudo chown ubuntu:ubuntu /opt/runnerx