diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 0853005a985601f9e58239a48f3e0b67887b2c1b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-lxml~=4.1.1
-xlrd~=1.1.0
-xkcdpass~=1.16.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d58f01fee4516070bb045db35e71037210418f77..333c6a9c56b6bc34055dd861722040b4c318a081 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ setup(
     url='https://gitlab.gwdg.de/j.michal/hektor',
     license='MIT',
     scripts=['bin/hektor'],
-    install_requires=['lxml'],
+    install_requires=["lxml~=4.1.1",
+                      "xlrd~=1.1.0",
+                      "xkcdpass~=1.16.0"],
     py_modules=['hektor']
 )