diff --git a/images/renderer/Dockerfile b/images/renderer/Dockerfile
index e376adc2..60c833e3 100644
--- a/images/renderer/Dockerfile
+++ b/images/renderer/Dockerfile
@@ -11,9 +11,12 @@ RUN apt-get update \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 COPY requirements.txt /tmp/requirements.txt
-RUN pip3 --no-cache-dir install -r /tmp/requirements.txt
+
+# We don't care about breaking system packages since this is a container
+RUN pip3 --break-system-packages --no-cache-dir install -r /tmp/requirements.txt
+
 # something about the --no-cache-dir keeps pyrsistent from visibly installing
-RUN pip3 install pyrsistent
+RUN pip3 --break-system-packages install pyrsistent
 
 COPY renderer.py /srv/renderer.py
 COPY basic.tpl /srv/basic.tpl