diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 37298cf29a9..26f945ec76a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Description: CloudStack server library
 
 Package: cloudstack-agent
 Architecture: all
-Depends: openjdk-7-jre | openjdk-8-jre, cloudstack-common (= ${source:Version}), lsb-base (>= 3.2), libcommons-daemon-java, openssh-client, libvirt0, sysvinit-utils, qemu-system-x86 | qemu-kvm, libvirt-bin, uuid-runtime, rsync, grep, iproute, perl-base, perl-modules, ebtables, vlan, wget, jsvc, ipset, python-libvirt, ethtool, iptables, aria2
+Depends: openjdk-7-jre | openjdk-8-jre, cloudstack-common (= ${source:Version}), lsb-base (>= 3.2), libcommons-daemon-java, openssh-client, libvirt0, sysvinit-utils, qemu-system-x86 | qemu-kvm, libvirt-bin, uuid-runtime, rsync, grep, iproute, perl-base, perl-modules, ebtables, vlan, wget, jsvc, ipset, python-libvirt, ethtool, iptables
 Conflicts: cloud-agent, cloud-agent-libs, cloud-agent-deps, cloud-agent-scripts
 Description: CloudStack agent
  The CloudStack agent is in charge of managing shared computing resources in
diff --git a/packaging/centos63/cloud.spec b/packaging/centos63/cloud.spec
index a346b014e17..9c7f3a41c9a 100644
--- a/packaging/centos63/cloud.spec
+++ b/packaging/centos63/cloud.spec
@@ -133,8 +133,6 @@ Requires: perl
 Requires: libvirt-python
 Requires: qemu-img
 Requires: qemu-kvm
-Requires: epel-release
-Requires: aria2
 Provides: cloud-agent
 Obsoletes: cloud-agent < 4.1.0
 Obsoletes: cloud-agent-libs < 4.1.0
diff --git a/scripts/vm/hypervisor/kvm/setup_agent.sh b/scripts/vm/hypervisor/kvm/setup_agent.sh
index a9d87a0c125..243f4a2b96c 100755
--- a/scripts/vm/hypervisor/kvm/setup_agent.sh
+++ b/scripts/vm/hypervisor/kvm/setup_agent.sh
@@ -224,17 +224,5 @@ then
     setenforce 0
 fi
 
-which aria2c
-if [ $? -gt 0 ]
-then
-    yum install epel-release -y
-    yum install aria2 -y
-    if [ $? -gt 0 ]
-    then
-        printf "failed to install aria2"
-        exit 1
-    fi
-fi
-
 cloudstack-setup-agent --host=$host --zone=$zone --pod=$pod --cluster=$cluster --guid=$guid $paramters -a > /dev/null
 #cloud_consoleP_setup $host $zone $pod
diff --git a/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvm64template/postinstall.sh b/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvm64template/postinstall.sh
index 55672dc2838..94df8bcd1e0 100644
--- a/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvm64template/postinstall.sh
+++ b/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvm64template/postinstall.sh
@@ -102,8 +102,6 @@ install_packages() {
 
   apt-get --no-install-recommends -q -y --force-yes install radvd
 
-  apt-get --no-install-recommends -q -y --force-yes install aria2
-
   # do a final update and upgrade
   apt-get clean
   apt-get update