diff --git a/.github/workflows/notebooks-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/notebooks-ci.yml
index 3ac6fe185d..36cc286cb7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/notebooks-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/notebooks-ci.yml
@@ -197,9 +197,13 @@ jobs:
           # Pin to the same versions update_all_notebooks.py installs in
           # generated notebooks. Keep these in lockstep with PIN_TRL /
           # PIN_TRANSFORMERS in unslothai/notebooks/update_all_notebooks.py.
+          # `triton` is added because unsloth/_gpu_init.py:232 does an
+          # unconditional `import triton`; the PyPI wheel installs cleanly
+          # on Linux x86_64 even without CUDA (same rationale as
+          # consolidated-tests-ci.yml line 192-198).
           pip install 'transformers>=4.56,<5.6' 'trl>=0.22,<0.26' 'accelerate>=1.0' \
                       'datasets>=3.4,<5' 'peft>=0.15,<0.20' \
-                      'bitsandbytes>=0.43' 'sentencepiece' 'protobuf'
+                      'bitsandbytes>=0.43' 'sentencepiece' 'protobuf' triton
           # Converter deps (nbformat for notebook_to_python.py).
           pip install 'nbformat>=5.10' 'nbconvert>=7.16'
           pip install --no-deps unsloth_zoo unsloth