diff --git a/backend/python/voxcpm/install.sh b/backend/python/voxcpm/install.sh
index ed1f3c707..a50b07dd2 100755
--- a/backend/python/voxcpm/install.sh
+++ b/backend/python/voxcpm/install.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,12 @@ else
 fi
 
 installRequirements
-
+ 
+if [ "x${USE_PIP}" == "xtrue" ]; then
+    pip install "setuptools<70.0.0"
+else
+    uv pip install "setuptools<70.0.0"
+fi
 # Apply patch to fix PyTorch compatibility issue in voxcpm
 # This fixes the "Dimension out of range" error in scaled_dot_product_attention
 # by changing .contiguous() to .unsqueeze(0) in the attention module