diff --git a/src/axolotl/integrations/cut_cross_entropy/__init__.py b/src/axolotl/integrations/cut_cross_entropy/__init__.py
index b9a59aea9..5de10020c 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/integrations/cut_cross_entropy/__init__.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/integrations/cut_cross_entropy/__init__.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ LOG = get_logger(__name__)
 
 _CCE_INSTALL_MESSAGE = (
     "Please install Axolotl's fork of cut_cross_entropy with transformers support using "
-    '`pip install "cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@fec1a88"`'
+    '`pip uninstall -y cut-cross-entropy && pip install "cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@fec1a88"`'
 )