diff --git a/cm-mlops/script/app-image-classification-onnx-py/run.sh b/cm-mlops/script/app-image-classification-onnx-py/run.sh
index 2b5e8b7701..62b07e1f10 100644
--- a/cm-mlops/script/app-image-classification-onnx-py/run.sh
+++ b/cm-mlops/script/app-image-classification-onnx-py/run.sh
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export CK_BATCH_COUNT=${CM_BATCH_COUNT}
 
 if [[ "${CM_INPUT}" != "" ]]; then export CM_IMAGE=${CM_INPUT}; fi
 
-PIP_EXTRA=`${CM_PYTHON_BIN} -c "import pkg_resources; print(' --break-system-packages ' if int(pkg_resources.get_distribution('pip').version.split('.')[0]) >= 23 else '')"`
+PIP_EXTRA=`${CM_PYTHON_BIN} -c "import importlib.metadata; print(' --break-system-packages ' if int(importlib.metadata.version('pip').split('.')[0]) >= 23 else '')"`
 
 echo ""
 ${CM_PYTHON_BIN} -m pip install -r ${CM_TMP_CURRENT_SCRIPT_PATH}/requirements.txt ${PIP_EXTRA}
diff --git a/cm-mlops/script/get-sys-utils-cm/do_pip_installs.sh b/cm-mlops/script/get-sys-utils-cm/do_pip_installs.sh
index 55a1492492..cbf7e58579 100644
--- a/cm-mlops/script/get-sys-utils-cm/do_pip_installs.sh
+++ b/cm-mlops/script/get-sys-utils-cm/do_pip_installs.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-PIP_EXTRA=`python3 -c "import pkg_resources; print(' --break-system-packages ' if int(pkg_resources.get_distribution('pip').version.split('.')[0]) >= 23 else '')"`
+PIP_EXTRA=`python3 -c "import importlib.metadata; print(' --break-system-packages ' if int(importlib.metadata.version('pip').split('.')[0]) >= 23 else '')"`
 cmd="python3 -m pip install -r ${CM_TMP_CURRENT_SCRIPT_PATH}/requirements.txt ${CM_PYTHON_PIP_USER} ${CM_PYTHON_PIP_COMMON_EXTRA} ${PIP_EXTRA}"
 echo $cmd
 eval $cmd
diff --git a/cm-mlops/script/get-sys-utils-cm/do_pip_installs.sh.old b/cm-mlops/script/get-sys-utils-cm/do_pip_installs.sh.old
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..55a1492492
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cm-mlops/script/get-sys-utils-cm/do_pip_installs.sh.old
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+PIP_EXTRA=`python3 -c "import pkg_resources; print(' --break-system-packages ' if int(pkg_resources.get_distribution('pip').version.split('.')[0]) >= 23 else '')"`
+cmd="python3 -m pip install -r ${CM_TMP_CURRENT_SCRIPT_PATH}/requirements.txt ${CM_PYTHON_PIP_USER} ${CM_PYTHON_PIP_COMMON_EXTRA} ${PIP_EXTRA}"
+echo $cmd
+eval $cmd
diff --git a/cm-mlops/script/get-tensorrt/run.sh b/cm-mlops/script/get-tensorrt/run.sh
index ac06cbf885..ac3b30a9d0 100644
--- a/cm-mlops/script/get-tensorrt/run.sh
+++ b/cm-mlops/script/get-tensorrt/run.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ if [[ ${CM_TENSORRT_VERSION} == 'vdetected' ]]; then
   exit 0;
 fi
 
-PIP_EXTRA=`python3 -c "import pkg_resources; print(' --break-system-packages ' if int(pkg_resources.get_distribution('pip').version.split('.')[0]) >= 23 else '')"`
+PIP_EXTRA=`python3 -c "import importlib.metadata; print(' --break-system-packages ' if int(importlib.metadata.version('pip').split('.')[0]) >= 23 else '')"`
 
 version=${CM_TENSORRT_VERSION}
 install_dir=${CM_TENSORRT_INSTALL_PATH}
diff --git a/cm-mlops/script/install-python-venv/run.sh b/cm-mlops/script/install-python-venv/run.sh
index ac1d86f457..87dfcaf10d 100644
--- a/cm-mlops/script/install-python-venv/run.sh
+++ b/cm-mlops/script/install-python-venv/run.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-PIP_EXTRA=`${CM_PYTHON_BIN} -c "import pkg_resources; print(' --break-system-packages ' if int(pkg_resources.get_distribution('pip').version.split('.')[0]) >= 23 else '')"`
+#PIP_EXTRA=`${CM_PYTHON_BIN} -c "import pkg_resources; print(' --break-system-packages ' if int(pkg_resources.get_distribution('pip').version.split('.')[0]) >= 23 else '')"`
+PIP_EXTRA=`${CM_PYTHON_BIN} -c "import importlib.metadata; print(' --break-system-packages ' if int(importlib.metadata.version('pip').split('.')[0]) >= 23 else '')"`
 
 ${CM_PYTHON_BIN_WITH_PATH} -m pip install virtualenv ${PIP_EXTRA}
 test $? -eq 0 || exit 1