diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1547b7974..0581081fa 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ setup(
         'tables',
         'blosc',
         'joblib',
-        'pyarrow',
+        'pyarrow; platform_machine != "armv7l"',
         'fastapi',
         'uvicorn',
         'psutil',