diff --git a/docker/klipper/requirements-prind.txt b/docker/klipper/requirements-prind.txt
index 74603ff..af7608c 100644
--- a/docker/klipper/requirements-prind.txt
+++ b/docker/klipper/requirements-prind.txt
@@ -1 +1,8 @@
-numpy==1.26.4
\ No newline at end of file
+## This file contains additional requirements
+## Packages defined here will be installed prior to klippy requirements
+## 
+numpy==1.26.4
+# this is a workaround as setuptools is no longer installed in venvs since python 3.12
+# klippy is installing python-can==3.3.4 which requires setuptools to be present
+# May be removed if python-can has been upgraded upstream in https://github.com/Klipper3d/klipper/pull/6557.
+setuptools