diff --git a/src/pybind/mgr/dashboard/requirements.txt b/src/pybind/mgr/dashboard/requirements.txt
index 0305187216d..c63b61940ca 100644
--- a/src/pybind/mgr/dashboard/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/pybind/mgr/dashboard/requirements.txt
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ python3-saml
 requests
 Routes
 six
-../../../python-common
\ No newline at end of file
+-e ../../../python-common