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diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index bdb7769fe9..22f7b7c029 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ mkdir -p ~/synapse
 virtualenv -p python3 ~/synapse/env
 source ~/synapse/env/bin/activate
 pip install --upgrade pip
-pip install --upgrade setuptools!=50.0  # setuptools==50.0 fails on some older Python versions
+pip install --upgrade setuptools
 pip install matrix-synapse
 ```