diff --git a/.github/workflows/pyxrf_requirements.txt b/.github/workflows/pyxrf_requirements.txt
index e31436c51..b1219a925 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pyxrf_requirements.txt
+++ b/.github/workflows/pyxrf_requirements.txt
@@ -11,3 +11,6 @@ hatchling
 # it gets fixed and a new release comes out.
 # See: https://github.com/NSLS-II-SRX/xrf-tomo/pull/10
 pandas<3.0
+# This is required for running pyxrf-utils on Python3.11
+# Setuptools was removed in versions 80+
+setuptools<80
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scripts/build_tomviz.sh b/.github/workflows/scripts/build_tomviz.sh
index 429a1ba0f..62a5a0238 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/scripts/build_tomviz.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/scripts/build_tomviz.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 mkdir -p tomviz-build && cd tomviz-build
+
+# FIXME: setting the zlib paths manually shouldn't be necessary forever.
+# Try removing it sometime
 cmake -G"Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=RelWithDebInfo \
   -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR:STRING=lib \
   -DTOMVIZ_USE_EXTERNAL_VTK:BOOL=ON \
   -DENABLE_TESTING:BOOL=ON \
   -DPython3_FIND_STRATEGY:STRING=LOCATION \
+  -DZLIB_LIBRARY=$CONDA_PREFIX/lib/libz.so.1 \
+  -DZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR=$CONDA_PREFIX/include \
   ../tomviz
 ninja
diff --git a/acquisition/requirements-dev.txt b/acquisition/requirements-dev.txt
index f583c9fc4..c70dbbc0a 100644
--- a/acquisition/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/acquisition/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
-pytest>=8.3
-requests>=2.32.4
-Pillow==10.3.0
-# Need this for testing so we can stop there server, change when the required
-# get into a release.
-# https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle/archive/41ed6965.zip
-bottle>=0.13.2
-mock==2.0.0
-diskcache==3.0.1
--e git+https://cjh1@bitbucket.org/cjh1/pydm3reader.git@filelike#egg=dm3_lib
+pytest
+requests
+Pillow
+bottle
+mock
+diskcache