diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index a2d4241..aa840cb 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ COPY entrypoint /entrypoint
 RUN adduser -D -u 54000 radio
 RUN	apk update && \
 	apk add git gcc musl-dev libffi-dev openssl-dev cargo && \
-    pip install --upgrade pip && \
+    pip install --upgrade pip --break-system-packages && \
     pip cache purge && \
 	git clone https://github.com/shaymez/HBMonv2.git /hbmon && \
     cd /hbmon && \
-	pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt && \
+	pip install --no-cache-dir --break-system-packages -r requirements.txt && \
 	apk del git gcc musl-dev libffi-dev openssl-dev && \
 	chown -R radio /hbmon
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ed22fef..a39e2d2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ information and on the subpages, you can see the individual content that was sho
 
 HBMonv2 is tested on Debian v10, v11, v12 & v13
 
+**Note for Debian 12+/Ubuntu 23.04+**: The install.sh script has been updated to handle 
+PEP 668 externally-managed-environment restrictions using the --break-system-packages flag.
+
 This version of HBMonv2 requires a web server like apache2, lighttpd and 
 php support running on the server. 
 
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 53f57d0..abc2fc1 100644
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 # Install the required support programs
 apt-get update
 apt-get install python3 python3-pip python3-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev cargo sed -y
-pip3 install --upgrade setuptools wheel
-pip3 install -r requirements.txt
+pip3 install --upgrade setuptools wheel --break-system-packages
+pip3 install -r requirements.txt --break-system-packages