diff --git a/roles/jupyterhub/tasks/install.yml b/roles/jupyterhub/tasks/install.yml
index 4e23f9ccc..d4d9d99e8 100644
--- a/roles/jupyterhub/tasks/install.yml
+++ b/roles/jupyterhub/tasks/install.yml
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@
       - jupyterhub
     virtualenv: "{{ jupyterhub_venv }}"    # /opt/iiab/jupyterhub
     virtualenv_site_packages: no
-    virtualenv_command: python3 -m venv --system-site-packages "{{ jupyterhub_venv }}"    # 2021-07-29: This works on RasPiOS 10, Debian 11, Ubuntu 20.04 and Mint 20 -- however if you absolutely must use the older Debian 10 -- you can work around errors "can't find Rust compiler" and "This package requires Rust >=1.41.0" if you (1) revert this line to 'virtualenv_command: virtualenv' AND (2) uncomment the line just below
+    virtualenv_command: python3 -m venv "{{ jupyterhub_venv }}"    # 2025-02-16
+    #virtualenv_command: python3 -m venv --system-site-packages "{{ jupyterhub_venv }}"    # 2021-07-29: This works on RasPiOS 10, Debian 11, Ubuntu 20.04 and Mint 20 -- however if you absolutely must use the older Debian 10 -- you can work around errors "can't find Rust compiler" and "This package requires Rust >=1.41.0" if you (1) revert this line to 'virtualenv_command: virtualenv' AND (2) uncomment the line just below
     #virtualenv_python: python3    # 2021-07-29: Was needed when above line was 'virtualenv_command: virtualenv' (generally for Python 2)
     extra_args: "--no-cache-dir --prefer-binary"    # 2021-11-30, 2022-07-07: The "--pre" flag had earlier been needed, for beta-like pre-releases of JupyterHub 2.0.0
 
@@ -68,7 +69,8 @@
       - ipywidgets
     virtualenv: "{{ jupyterhub_venv }}"
     virtualenv_site_packages: no
-    virtualenv_command: python3 -m venv --system-site-packages "{{ jupyterhub_venv }}"
+    virtualenv_command: python3 -m venv "{{ jupyterhub_venv }}"    # 2025-02-16
+    #virtualenv_command: python3 -m venv --system-site-packages "{{ jupyterhub_venv }}"
     extra_args: "--no-cache-dir --prefer-binary"    # 2023-10-01: Lifesaver when recent wheels (e.g. piwheels.org) are inevitably not yet built!  SEE #3560
 
 - name: "Install from template: {{ jupyterhub_venv }}/etc/jupyterhub/jupyterhub_config.py"