I found that if pip is upgraded to latest version 25.0.1 then the package install fine.
The question become: why does the agent downgrade pip ?

Ignoring pip: markers 'python_version < "3.10"' don't match your environment
Collecting pip<22.3
  Downloading pip-22.2.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.2 kB)
Downloading pip-22.2.2-py3-none-any.whl (2.0 MB)
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Installing collected packages: pip
  Attempting uninstall: pip
    Found existing installation: pip 25.0.1
    Uninstalling pip-25.0.1:
      Successfully uninstalled pip-25.0.1
Successfully installed pip-22.2.2
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager, possibly rendering your system unusable. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: 

. Use the --root-user-action option if you know what you are doing and want to suppress this warning.
Collecting Cython
  Downloading Cython-3.0.12-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (3.6 MB)
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Installing collected packages: Cython
Successfully installed Cython-3.0.12

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