diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 17adc3a31f..965a2aa7b4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 ## Features
 
-- The `pybamm_install_odes` command now includes support for macOS systems and can be used to set up SUNDIALS and install the `scikits.odes` solver on macOS ([#3417](https://github.com/pybamm-team/PyBaMM/pull/3417))
+- The `pybamm_install_odes` command now includes support for macOS systems and can be used to set up SUNDIALS and install the `scikits.odes` solver on macOS ([#3417](https://github.com/pybamm-team/PyBaMM/pull/3417), [#3706](https://github.com/pybamm-team/PyBaMM/3706]))
 - Added support for Python 3.12 ([#3531](https://github.com/pybamm-team/PyBaMM/pull/3531))
 - Added method to get QuickPlot axes by variable ([#3596](https://github.com/pybamm-team/PyBaMM/pull/3596))
 - Added custom experiment terminations ([#3596](https://github.com/pybamm-team/PyBaMM/pull/3596))
diff --git a/docs/source/user_guide/installation/gnu-linux-mac.rst b/docs/source/user_guide/installation/gnu-linux-mac.rst
index c73f549299..d774285556 100644
--- a/docs/source/user_guide/installation/gnu-linux-mac.rst
+++ b/docs/source/user_guide/installation/gnu-linux-mac.rst
@@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ Users can install `scikits.odes <https://github.com/bmcage/odes>`__ to utilize i
 
    .. code:: bash
 
-      apt install libopenblas-dev
+      apt-get install libopenblas-dev
+      pip install wget cmake
       pybamm_install_odes
 
    system (under ``~/.local``), before installing ``scikits.odes``. (Alternatively, one can install SUNDIALS without this script and run ``pip install pybamm[odes]`` to install ``pybamm`` with ``scikits.odes``.)
@@ -131,6 +132,7 @@ Users can install `scikits.odes <https://github.com/bmcage/odes>`__ to utilize i
    .. code:: bash
 
       brew install openblas gcc gfortran
+      pip install wget cmake
       pybamm_install_odes
 
 The ``pybamm_install_odes`` command, installed with PyBaMM, automatically downloads and installs the SUNDIALS library on your
diff --git a/pybamm/install_odes.py b/pybamm/install_odes.py
index 128d3ca396..3809d763f2 100644
--- a/pybamm/install_odes.py
+++ b/pybamm/install_odes.py
@@ -190,7 +190,12 @@ def main(arguments=None):
     # see https://scikits-odes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#id1
     os.environ["SUNDIALS_INST"] = SUNDIALS_LIB_DIR
     env = os.environ.copy()
-    subprocess.run(["pip", "install", "scikits.odes"], env=env, check=True)
+    logger.info("Installing scikits.odes via pip")
+    subprocess.run(
+        [f"{sys.executable}", "-m", "pip", "install", "scikits.odes", "--verbose"],
+        env=env,
+        check=True,
+    )
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":