diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index 530e23a1..06e9a912 100644
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ wheel==0.33.6
 sentry-sdk==1.0.0
 django-ckeditor==5.9.0
 django-admin-sortable2==0.7.5
-social-auth-app-django==4.0.0
+# social-auth-app-django==4.0.0  # will be installed through install script install-backend
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ff9a377a..a727f689 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ redis==2.10.6             # via celery
 rest-framework-cache==0.1
 sentry-sdk==1.0.0
 six==1.12.0               # via autobahn, automat, django-extensions, pyhamcrest, python-dateutil, txaio
-social-auth-app-django==4.0.0
 twisted==18.9.0           # via daphne
 txaio==18.8.1             # via autobahn
 vine==1.3.0               # via amqp
diff --git a/service/scripts/install-backend.sh b/service/scripts/install-backend.sh
index 1c77f26b..a8484782 100755
--- a/service/scripts/install-backend.sh
+++ b/service/scripts/install-backend.sh
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ fi
 
 python -m pip install pip==9.0.3
 pip install -r requirements.txt;
+python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
+pip3 install social-auth-app-django==4.0.0
 # pip uninstall -y sciunit
 # pip install git+git://github.com/ddelpiano/sciunit@4.0.0#egg=sciunit