diff --git a/ansible/roles/baselayout/tasks/partials/repo/rhel9.yml b/ansible/roles/baselayout/tasks/partials/repo/rhel9.yml
index 6ef5cf019..f2daeed88 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/baselayout/tasks/partials/repo/rhel9.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/baselayout/tasks/partials/repo/rhel9.yml
@@ -12,15 +12,3 @@
   ansible.builtin.dnf:
     name: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
     state: present
-
-- name: install Python 3.12
-  ansible.builtin.dnf:
-    name: ['python3.12','python3.12-pip']
-    state: present
-  notify: package updated
-
-- name: update python3 package alternatives
-  community.general.alternatives:
-    link: /usr/bin/python3
-    name: python3
-    path: /usr/bin/python3.12
diff --git a/ansible/roles/jenkins-worker/tasks/partials/tap2junit/rhel9.yml b/ansible/roles/jenkins-worker/tasks/partials/tap2junit/rhel9.yml
index 626bed02c..be9a7ba06 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/jenkins-worker/tasks/partials/tap2junit/rhel9.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/jenkins-worker/tasks/partials/tap2junit/rhel9.yml
@@ -6,11 +6,12 @@
 
 - name: install pip
   ansible.builtin.dnf: 
-    name: python3-pip
+    name: ['python3.12','python3.12-pip']
     state: present
 
 - name: install tap2junit
   ansible.builtin.pip:
-    executable: /usr/bin/pip3
     name: tap2junit=={{ tap2junit_version }}
     state: present
+    virtualenv: /home/{{ server_user }}/venv
+    virtualenv_command: python3.12 -m venv