diff --git a/imagebuild/coreos/build_coreos_image.sh b/imagebuild/coreos/build_coreos_image.sh
index d911667ce..1260923dd 100755
--- a/imagebuild/coreos/build_coreos_image.sh
+++ b/imagebuild/coreos/build_coreos_image.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 if [[ -x /usr/bin/docker.io ]]; then
     sudo -E ln -sf /usr/bin/docker.io /usr/local/bin/docker
 fi
-cd imagebuild/coreos
 sudo -E pip install -r requirements.txt
+cd imagebuild/coreos
 sudo -E make clean
 sudo -E make
diff --git a/imagebuild/coreos/requirements.txt b/imagebuild/coreos/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index ecc1db365..000000000
--- a/imagebuild/coreos/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-requests>=2.2.0,!=2.4.0