diff --git a/src/clean-pip.ts b/src/clean-pip.ts
index 233c8207..fa0d6770 100644
--- a/src/clean-pip.ts
+++ b/src/clean-pip.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ export async function cleanPipPackages() {
     // Use a shell so we can pipe the output of pip freeze into xargs
     await exec('bash', [
       '-c',
-      'python -m pip freeze | xargs python -m pip uninstall'
+      'test $(python3 -m pip freeze | wc -l) -gt 0 && python3 -m pip freeze | xargs python3 -m pip uninstall -y'
     ]);
     core.info('Successfully cleaned up pip packages');
   } catch (error) {