diff --git a/.github/workflows/linux.yml b/.github/workflows/linux.yml
index 91f089e03a..e7554f084f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/linux.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/linux.yml
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install
       run: |
         sudo apt-get update
-        sudo apt-get install g++ libopenmpi-dev libhdf5-openmpi-dev python3 python3-numpy python3-mpi4py python3-pandas
+        sudo apt-get install g++ libopenmpi-dev libhdf5-openmpi-dev python3 python3-numpy python3-mpi4py python3-pandas python3-pip
 #       TODO ADIOS2
     - name: Build
       env: {CXXFLAGS: -Werror, PKG_CONFIG_PATH: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig}
@@ -253,6 +253,22 @@ jobs:
         cmake --build build --parallel 2
         ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure
 
+        python3 -m pip install jsonschema
+        cd share/openPMD/json_schema
+        PATH="../../../build/bin:$PATH" make -j 2
+        # We need to exclude the thetaMode example since that has a different
+        # meshesPath and the JSON schema needs to hardcode that.
+        find ../../../build/samples/      \
+            ! -path '*thetaMode*'         \
+            ! -path '/*many_iterations/*' \
+            ! -name 'profiling.json'      \
+            ! -name '*config.json'        \
+            -iname '*.json'               \
+          | while read i; do
+            echo "Checking $i"
+            ./check.py "$i"
+        done
+
   musllinux_py10:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     if: github.event.pull_request.draft == false