diff --git a/.github/ci/packages.apt b/.github/ci/packages.apt
index 697c0e8f..bbccbc55 100644
--- a/.github/ci/packages.apt
+++ b/.github/ci/packages.apt
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ libzmq3-dev
 pkg-config
 protobuf-compiler
 python3-dev
-python3-distutils
 python3-psutil
 python3-pybind11
 python3-pytest