diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 18b329a71..07aa39014 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ where 'distro' stands for:
 
 * Development and documentation build::
 
-     apt-get install python3-{sip-dev,pytest,pytest-cov,pytest-timeout,pytest-rerunfailures,coverage}
+     apt-get install python3-{sip-dev,pytest,pytest-cov,pytest-timeout,coverage}
      apt-get install python3-{sphinx,sphinx-rtd-theme,sphinxcontrib.seqdiag}
      apt-get install python3-pyqt5-{dev,dev-tools}
 
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 43a3c29fe..dc3d2debf 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -17,4 +17,3 @@ yapf>=0.12.0
 pytest-randomly>=1.1
 pyftpdlib
 sphinxcontrib-seqdiag
-pytest-rerunfailures