diff --git a/e2e/install/upgrade/upgrade_test.go b/e2e/install/upgrade/upgrade_test.go
index 2c9d71ac23..f0c1e05c99 100644
--- a/e2e/install/upgrade/upgrade_test.go
+++ b/e2e/install/upgrade/upgrade_test.go
@@ -47,36 +47,25 @@ func TestUpgrade(t *testing.T) {
 		// We start the test by installing previous version operator
 		lastVersion, ok := os.LookupEnv("LAST_RELEASED_VERSION")
 		g.Expect(ok).To(BeTrue(), "Missing last released version: you need to set it into LAST_RELEASED_VERSION env var")
-		lastVersionDir := fmt.Sprintf("/tmp/camel-k-v-%s", lastVersion)
-		// We clone and install the previous installed operator
-		// from source with tag
-		ExpectExecSucceed(t, g,
-			exec.Command(
-				"rm",
-				"-rf",
-				lastVersionDir,
-			))
-		ExpectExecSucceed(t, g,
-			exec.Command(
-				"git",
-				"clone",
-				"https://github.com/apache/camel-k.git",
-				lastVersionDir,
-			))
-		checkoutCmd := exec.Command(
-			"git",
-			"checkout",
-			fmt.Sprintf("v%s", lastVersion),
-		)
-		checkoutCmd.Dir = lastVersionDir
-		ExpectExecSucceed(t, g, checkoutCmd)
-		installPrevCmd := exec.Command(
-			"make",
-			"install-k8s-global",
-			fmt.Sprintf("NAMESPACE=%s", ns),
-		)
-		installPrevCmd.Dir = lastVersionDir
-		ExpectExecSucceed(t, g, installPrevCmd)
+		// We install the previous operator directly from the git tag using Kustomize
+		kustomizeDir, err := os.MkdirTemp("", "camel-k-upgrade-*")
+		g.Expect(err).To(BeNil())
+		defer os.RemoveAll(kustomizeDir)
+
+		kustomization := fmt.Sprintf(`namespace: %s
+resources:
+- github.com/apache/camel-k/install/overlays/kubernetes/descoped?ref=v%s
+`, ns, lastVersion)
+
+		err = os.WriteFile(fmt.Sprintf("%s/kustomization.yaml", kustomizeDir), []byte(kustomization), 0o644)
+		g.Expect(err).To(BeNil())
+
+		ExpectExecSucceed(t, g, Kubectl(
+			"apply",
+			"-k",
+			kustomizeDir,
+			"--server-side",
+		))
 
 		// Refresh the test client to account for the newly installed CRDs
 		RefreshClient(t)
diff --git a/pkg/apis/camel/v1/trait/zz_generated.deepcopy.go b/pkg/apis/camel/v1/trait/zz_generated.deepcopy.go
index 7fc4e10bc7..8df426e361 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/camel/v1/trait/zz_generated.deepcopy.go
+++ b/pkg/apis/camel/v1/trait/zz_generated.deepcopy.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 package trait
 
 import (
-	"k8s.io/api/core/v1"
+	v1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
 	networkingv1 "k8s.io/api/networking/v1"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/intstr"
 )
diff --git a/pkg/apis/camel/v1/zz_generated.deepcopy.go b/pkg/apis/camel/v1/zz_generated.deepcopy.go
index 3be380fab1..091b0a56c5 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/camel/v1/zz_generated.deepcopy.go
+++ b/pkg/apis/camel/v1/zz_generated.deepcopy.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ package v1
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+
 	"github.com/apache/camel-k/v2/pkg/apis/camel/v1/trait"
 	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
diff --git a/pkg/apis/duck/keda/v1alpha1/zz_generated.deepcopy.go b/pkg/apis/duck/keda/v1alpha1/zz_generated.deepcopy.go
index 27d57d72ab..450aba305f 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/duck/keda/v1alpha1/zz_generated.deepcopy.go
+++ b/pkg/apis/duck/keda/v1alpha1/zz_generated.deepcopy.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 package v1alpha1
 
 import (
-	"k8s.io/api/core/v1"
+	v1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
diff --git a/script/get_catalog.sh b/script/get_catalog.sh
index e7fbb2817c..2c4e1c511e 100755
--- a/script/get_catalog.sh
+++ b/script/get_catalog.sh
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ fi
 # Refresh catalog sets. We can clean any leftover as well.
 rm -f ${rootdir}/pkg/resources/resources/camel-catalog-*
 
+if ! command -v mvn &> /dev/null
+then
+    echo "Maven (mvn) is required but not installed."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
 mvn -q dependency:copy -Dartifact="org.apache.camel.k:camel-k-catalog:$runtime_version:yaml:catalog" \
   -Dmdep.useBaseVersion=true \
   -DoutputDirectory=${rootdir}/resources/ \