diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ar/arrow-cpp/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ar/arrow-cpp/package.nix
index 8c8cdebd117e..a239b13feed0 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ar/arrow-cpp/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ar/arrow-cpp/package.nix
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
   openssl,
   perl,
   pkg-config,
-  protobuf,
+  protobuf_31,
   python3,
   rapidjson,
   re2,
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     libbacktrace
     lz4
     nlohmann_json # alternative JSON parser to rapidjson
-    protobuf # substrait requires protobuf
+    protobuf_31 # substrait requires protobuf
     rapidjson
     re2
     snappy
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   ++ lib.optionals enableFlight [
     grpc
     openssl
-    protobuf
+    protobuf_31
     sqlite
   ]
   ++ lib.optionals enableS3 [