diff --git a/tvb_library/setup.py b/tvb_library/setup.py
index 774d60fd54..919676a8e2 100644
--- a/tvb_library/setup.py
+++ b/tvb_library/setup.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 LIBRARY_TEAM = "Marmaduke Woodman, Stuart Knock, Paula Sanz Leon, Viktor Jirsa"
 
 LIBRARY_REQUIRED_PACKAGES = ["autopep8", "Deprecated", "ipywidgets", "lxml", "mako>=1.1.4", "matplotlib",
-                             "networkx", "numba", "numexpr", "numpy", "pylems", "requests", "scipy", "six"]
+                             "networkx", "numba", "numexpr", "numpy", "pylems", "scipy", "six"]
 
 LIBRARY_REQUIRED_EXTRA = ["h5py",  "pytest", "pytest-benchmark", "pytest-xdist", "tvb-gdist", "tvb-data"]