diff --git a/files/apts/general b/files/apts/general
index a1fcf3cb61..ec6dd0db4b 100644
--- a/files/apts/general
+++ b/files/apts/general
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 bridge-utils
-pep8
 pylint
 python-pip
 screen
diff --git a/files/apts/horizon b/files/apts/horizon
index 2c2faf1a21..e1ce85f7d5 100644
--- a/files/apts/horizon
+++ b/files/apts/horizon
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ python-sqlalchemy
 python-webob
 python-kombu
 pylint
-pep8
 python-eventlet
 python-nose
 python-sphinx
diff --git a/files/rpms-suse/general b/files/rpms-suse/general
index b8ceeb7aab..93711ff784 100644
--- a/files/rpms-suse/general
+++ b/files/rpms-suse/general
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ openssl
 psmisc
 python-cmd2 # dist:opensuse-12.3
 python-netaddr
-python-pep8
 python-pip
 python-pylint
 python-unittest2
diff --git a/files/rpms-suse/horizon b/files/rpms-suse/horizon
index 7e46ffe0f7..405fb7ac56 100644
--- a/files/rpms-suse/horizon
+++ b/files/rpms-suse/horizon
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ python-kombu
 python-mox
 python-netaddr
 python-nose
-python-pep8
 python-pylint
 python-sqlalchemy-migrate
 python-xattr
diff --git a/files/rpms/general b/files/rpms/general
index 764b602da0..d6abae99df 100644
--- a/files/rpms/general
+++ b/files/rpms/general
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ libxslt-devel # dist:rhel6 [2]
 psmisc
 pylint
 python-netaddr
-python-pep8
 python-pip
 python-prettytable # dist:rhel6 [1]
 python-unittest2
@@ -29,4 +28,4 @@ wget
 
 # [2] : RHEL6 rpm versions of python-lxml is old, and has to be
 # removed.  Several tools rely on it, so we install the dependencies
-# pip needs to build it here (see tools/install_prereqs.sh)
\ No newline at end of file
+# pip needs to build it here (see tools/install_prereqs.sh)
diff --git a/files/rpms/horizon b/files/rpms/horizon
index cf16cdbeac..e27888a4af 100644
--- a/files/rpms/horizon
+++ b/files/rpms/horizon
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ python-netaddr
 python-nose
 python-paste        #dist:f16,f17,f18
 python-paste-deploy #dist:f16,f17,f18
-python-pep8
 python-routes
 python-sphinx
 python-sqlalchemy