diff --git a/stages/test/test_containers_storage_conf.py b/stages/test/test_containers_storage_conf.py
index 09e6e415..84184ef4 100644
--- a/stages/test/test_containers_storage_conf.py
+++ b/stages/test/test_containers_storage_conf.py
@@ -3,7 +3,11 @@
 import os.path
 
 import pytest
-import pytoml
+
+try:
+    import toml
+except ModuleNotFoundError:
+    import pytoml as toml
 
 import osbuild.meta
 from osbuild.testutil import assert_dict_has
@@ -45,8 +49,8 @@ def test_containers_storage_conf_integration(tmp_path, test_filename, test_stora
     assert os.path.exists(confpath)
 
     conf = None
-    with open(confpath, 'rb') as f:
-        conf = pytoml.load(f)
+    with open(confpath, 'r', encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        conf = toml.load(f)
 
     assert conf is not None
 
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 475577b1..756c9d75 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ deps =
     mako
     iniparse
     pyyaml
-    pytoml
+    toml
     pykickstart
     # required by pykickstart but not pulled in automatically :/
     requests