From 318245eaa6d37a27ca72168356198fdd90abfbb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Cloke <clokep@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 08:16:58 -0400
Subject: Do not install setuptools 50.0. (#8212)

This is due to compatibility issues with old Python versions.
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 INSTALL.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'INSTALL.md')

diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index 22f7b7c029..bdb7769fe9 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
+pip install --upgrade setuptools!=50.0  # setuptools==50.0 fails on some older Python versions
 pip install matrix-synapse
 ```
 
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