diff --git a/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml b/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
index d91d0d0d..71117835 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ jobs:
           **/requirements*.txt
           **/pyproject.toml
     - name: Install dependencies
-      run: uv pip install --system .[test,amber,ase,pymatgen,benchmark] rdkit openbabel-wheel
+      run: uv pip install --system .[test,amber,ase,pymatgen,benchmark] rdkit 'openbabel>=3.2.0'
     - name: Run benchmarks
       uses: CodSpeedHQ/action@v4
       with:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pyright.yml b/.github/workflows/pyright.yml
index 9fbc470b..cebe2b60 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pyright.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pyright.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
       with:
         python-version: '3.12'
     - run: pip install uv
-    - run: uv pip install --system -e .[amber,ase,pymatgen] rdkit openbabel-wheel
+    - run: uv pip install --system -e .[amber,ase,pymatgen] rdkit 'openbabel>=3.2.0'
     - uses: jakebailey/pyright-action@v3
       with:
         version: 1.1.363
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 823a13bf..ff13d485 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
           **/pyproject.toml
         cache-suffix: "py${{ matrix.python-version }}"
     - name: Install dependencies
-      run: uv pip install --system .[test,amber,ase,pymatgen] coverage ./tests/plugin rdkit openbabel-wheel
+      run: uv pip install --system .[test,amber,ase,pymatgen] coverage ./tests/plugin rdkit 'openbabel>=3.2.0'
     - name: Test
       run: cd tests && coverage run --source=../dpdata -m unittest && cd .. && coverage combine tests/.coverage && coverage report
     - name: Run codecov