diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index bc619f695b..b318f8a888 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -177,11 +177,9 @@ jobs:
           name: Get Ready
           command: |
             eval $PRE_TEST_COMMANDS;
-            pushd tools
-            npm install @types/node@18.11.9 --save-dev
+            ./meteor npm install @types/node@18.11.9 --save-dev
             # Ensure that meteor/tools has no TypeScript errors.
-            ../meteor npm install -g typescript
-            popd
+            ./meteor npm install -g typescript
             # tools/node_modules is a symlink, but starting on NPM 7, this symlinks are deleted https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/3669
             # so we are copying the node_modules to tools
             cp -R dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/ tools/