diff --git a/.github/workflows/run-pretrained-conformer-ctc.yml b/.github/workflows/run-pretrained-conformer-ctc.yml
index 69f15060b..9f2856399 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/run-pretrained-conformer-ctc.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/run-pretrained-conformer-ctc.yml
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install Python dependencies
         run: |
-          grep -v '^#' ./requirements-ci.txt  | xargs -n 1 -L 1 pip install
+          grep -v '^#' pip uninstall -y protobuf | pip install --no-binary protobuf protobuf |
+            ./requirements-ci.txt  | xargs -n 1 -L 1 pip install
 
       - name: Cache kaldifeat
         id: my-cache