diff --git a/install/kitchenowl-install.sh b/install/kitchenowl-install.sh
index f9190fc5f..0ef0ce7a3 100644
--- a/install/kitchenowl-install.sh
+++ b/install/kitchenowl-install.sh
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "kitchenowl-web" "TomBursch/kitchenowl" "prebuild" "
 
 msg_info "Setting up KitchenOwl"
 cd /opt/kitchenowl/backend
-$STD uv sync --frozen
+$STD uv sync --python 3.12
 sed -i 's/default=True/default=False/' /opt/kitchenowl/backend/wsgi.py
 mkdir -p /nltk_data
 $STD uv run python -m nltk.downloader -d /nltk_data averaged_perceptron_tagger_eng punkt_tab