diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e993bae4..b9e7d200 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "generic-array",
  "home",
  "itertools",
- "jobserver",
+ "jobslot",
  "log",
  "miette",
  "normalize-path",
@@ -942,6 +942,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "jobslot"
+version = "0.2.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0f0478230fe7c53cb89765785904f3cd9a1fb95f7d3261c343fe3248627e6060"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "libc",
+ "scopeguard",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "js-sys"
 version = "0.3.59"
diff --git a/crates/lib/Cargo.toml b/crates/lib/Cargo.toml
index 7a800d77..c65d40b2 100644
--- a/crates/lib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/lib/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ futures-util = { version = "0.3.23", default-features = false, features = ["std"
 generic-array = "0.14.6"
 home = "0.5.3"
 itertools = "0.10.3"
-jobserver = "0.1.24"
+jobslot = { version = "0.2.1", features = ["tokio"] }
 log = { version = "0.4.17", features = ["std"] }
 miette = "5.3.0"
 normalize-path = { version = "0.1.0", path = "../normalize-path" }
diff --git a/crates/lib/src/helpers/jobserver_client.rs b/crates/lib/src/helpers/jobserver_client.rs
index acfbc6c5..ca65fcd4 100644
--- a/crates/lib/src/helpers/jobserver_client.rs
+++ b/crates/lib/src/helpers/jobserver_client.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use std::{num::NonZeroUsize, sync::Arc, thread::available_parallelism};
 
-use jobserver::Client;
+use jobslot::Client;
 use tokio::sync::OnceCell;
 
 use crate::errors::BinstallError;
diff --git a/crates/lib/src/ops/install.rs b/crates/lib/src/ops/install.rs
index 6632c50b..582bbc42 100644
--- a/crates/lib/src/ops/install.rs
+++ b/crates/lib/src/ops/install.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use std::{path::PathBuf, process, sync::Arc};
+use std::{path::PathBuf, sync::Arc};
 
 use cargo_toml::Package;
 use compact_str::CompactString;
@@ -151,10 +151,8 @@ async fn install_from_source(
         "Running `cargo install {} --version {} --target {target}`",
         package.name, package.version
     );
-    let mut command = process::Command::new("cargo");
-    jobserver_client.configure(&mut command);
 
-    let mut cmd = Command::from(command);
+    let mut cmd = Command::new("cargo");
 
     cmd.arg("install")
         .arg(package.name)
@@ -173,7 +171,8 @@ async fn install_from_source(
 
     let command_string = format!("{:?}", cmd);
 
-    let mut child = cmd.spawn()?;
+    let mut child = jobserver_client.configure_and_run(&mut cmd, |cmd| cmd.spawn())?;
+
     debug!("Spawned command pid={:?}", child.id());
 
     let status = child.wait().await?;