diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4a2c346d..bee477d7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 import os
 from pathlib import Path
-import subprocess
-from setuptools.command.install import install
+import shutil
 
 # Create the .crawl4ai folder in the user's home directory if it doesn't exist
 # If the folder already exists, remove the cache folder
-crawl4ai_folder = os.path.join(Path.home(), ".crawl4ai")
-if os.path.exists(f"{crawl4ai_folder}/cache"):
-    subprocess.run(["rm", "-rf", f"{crawl4ai_folder}/cache"])
-os.makedirs(crawl4ai_folder, exist_ok=True)
-os.makedirs(f"{crawl4ai_folder}/cache", exist_ok=True)
+crawl4ai_folder = Path.home() / ".crawl4ai"
+cache_folder = crawl4ai_folder / "cache"
 
+if cache_folder.exists():
+    shutil.rmtree(cache_folder)
 
+crawl4ai_folder.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+cache_folder.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
 
 # Read the requirements from requirements.txt
 with open("requirements.txt") as f: