diff --git a/test/ci-install-docs b/test/ci-install-docs
index 02f74a0b54..c5d4fa6ea2 100755
--- a/test/ci-install-docs
+++ b/test/ci-install-docs
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@
 
 # We use 1.5 to be able to deal with gzip only sites in linkcheck (such as tcpdf.org)
 
-pip install --user --upgrade pip wheel
-~/.local/bin/pip install --user 'Sphinx' 'requests[security]'
+pip install --user 'Sphinx' 'requests[security]'