diff --git a/r2/setup.py b/r2/setup.py
index f247c3f6e..ba20d016d 100644
--- a/r2/setup.py
+++ b/r2/setup.py
@@ -59,11 +59,11 @@ except ImportError:
 try:
     import sqlalchemy
     vers = sqlalchemy.__version__ 
-    assert vers == "0.3.11" or vers == "0.3.10", \
-           ("reddit is only compatible with SqlAlchemy 0.3.10 and 0.3.11 not '%s' " % vers)
+    assert vers == "0.3.10", \
+           ("reddit is only compatible with SqlAlchemy 0.3.10 not '%s' " % vers)
 except ImportError:
-    print "Installing Sqlalchemy 0.3.11 from the cheese shop"
-    easy_install(["http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/S/SQLAlchemy/SQLAlchemy-0.3.11.tar.gz#md5=4b8c0921de350343814ed7ed50499578"])
+    print "Installing Sqlalchemy 0.3.10 from the cheese shop"
+    easy_install(["http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/S/SQLAlchemy/SQLAlchemy-0.3.10.tar.gz"])
 
 filtermod = Extension('Cfilters',
                       sources = ['r2/lib/c/filters.c'])
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ setup(
                       "Babel>=0.9.1",
                       "flup",
                       "simplejson", 
-                      "SQLAlchemy==0.3.11",
+                      "SQLAlchemy==0.3.10",
                       "chardet",
                       "psycopg2",
                       "py_interface"],