diff --git a/.circleci/build.sh b/.circleci/build.sh
index 1e4f2af78c4..68e81a5436c 100755
--- a/.circleci/build.sh
+++ b/.circleci/build.sh
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ python -c "import fcntl; fcntl.fcntl(1, fcntl.F_SETFL, 0)"
 
 # We always build PyTorch without CUDA support.
 export USE_CUDA=0
-python setup.py install --user
+python setup.py install
 
 sccache --show-stats
 
diff --git a/.circleci/common.sh b/.circleci/common.sh
index dee0cc19b4d..317b9832c4e 100755
--- a/.circleci/common.sh
+++ b/.circleci/common.sh
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ function install_deps_pytorch_xla() {
 function build_torch_xla() {
   XLA_DIR=$1
   pushd "$XLA_DIR"
-  python setup.py install --user
+  python setup.py install
   popd
 }