diff --git a/tutorials/e2e-distributed-pytorch-image/e2e-object-classification-distributed-pytorch.ipynb b/tutorials/e2e-distributed-pytorch-image/e2e-object-classification-distributed-pytorch.ipynb
index 0414ba68a8..0b6b23ff74 100644
--- a/tutorials/e2e-distributed-pytorch-image/e2e-object-classification-distributed-pytorch.ipynb
+++ b/tutorials/e2e-distributed-pytorch-image/e2e-object-classification-distributed-pytorch.ipynb
@@ -373,7 +373,8 @@
     "    code=\"./src/pytorch_dl_train/\",\n",
     "    # describe the command to run the python script, with all its parameters\n",
     "    # use the syntax below to inject parameter values from code\n",
-    "    command=\"\"\"python train.py \\\n",
+    "    command=\"\"\"python -m pip install --no-cache-dir --no-deps \"protobuf==3.20.3\" && \\\n",
+    "        python train.py \\\n",
     "        --train_images ${{inputs.train_images}} \\\n",
     "        --valid_images ${{inputs.valid_images}} \\\n",
     "        --batch_size ${{inputs.batch_size}} \\\n",