diff --git a/setup.sh b/setup.sh
index 2db0c7f5a5..b54f782ded 100755
--- a/setup.sh
+++ b/setup.sh
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ fi
 
 if [ "$NEED_NODE" = true ]; then
     # ── 2. Install nvm ──
+    export NODE_OPTIONS=--dns-result-order=ipv4first # or else fails on colab.
     echo "Installing nvm..."
     curl -so- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.1/install.sh | bash > /dev/null 2>&1
 
diff --git a/studio/backend/requirements/extras-no-deps.txt b/studio/backend/requirements/extras-no-deps.txt
index c2a9c6bad8..b78b479e51 100644
--- a/studio/backend/requirements/extras-no-deps.txt
+++ b/studio/backend/requirements/extras-no-deps.txt
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ git+https://github.com/meta-pytorch/OpenEnv.git
 executorch==1.0.1
 torch-c-dlpack-ext
 sentence_transformers==5.2.0
+transformers==4.57.1
diff --git a/studio/backend/requirements/overrides.txt b/studio/backend/requirements/overrides.txt
index 02770f3953..6852f601ed 100644
--- a/studio/backend/requirements/overrides.txt
+++ b/studio/backend/requirements/overrides.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # Torch AO overrides (installed with --force-reinstall --no-cache-dir)
 torchao==0.14.0
-transformers==4.57.1
 pytorch_tokenizers
 
 # Kernel packages
diff --git a/studio/backend/requirements/studio.txt b/studio/backend/requirements/studio.txt
index fd7da2626d..6a732664d2 100644
--- a/studio/backend/requirements/studio.txt
+++ b/studio/backend/requirements/studio.txt
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ pyjwt
 easydict
 addict
 gradio>=4.0.0
+huggingface-hub==0.36.0
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