diff --git a/admin/build-doc b/admin/build-doc
index b58c349c0ac..ef58aa40ee9 100755
--- a/admin/build-doc
+++ b/admin/build-doc
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ if [ ! -e $vdir ]; then
     virtualenv --python=python3 $vdir
 fi
 
-$vdir/bin/pip install --quiet --upgrade pip setuptools
 $vdir/bin/pip install --quiet \
               -r $TOPDIR/admin/doc-requirements.txt \
               -r $TOPDIR/admin/doc-python-common-requirements.txt