diff --git a/pip/requirements.txt b/pip/requirements.txt
index a7108acd6d0..f5217a7a6b2 100644
--- a/pip/requirements.txt
+++ b/pip/requirements.txt
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ gitdb==4.0.5
 GitPython==3.1.14
 google-auth==1.27.0
 google-auth-oauthlib==0.4.2
-google-common==0.0.1
 google-pasta==0.2.0
 grpcio==1.36.0
 grpcio-tools==1.36.0
diff --git a/py3-googlePackages.spec b/py3-googlePackages.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a77d6e4d54..00000000000
--- a/py3-googlePackages.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-### RPM external py3-googlePackages 1.0
-## INITENV +PATH PYTHON3PATH %{i}/${PYTHON3_LIB_SITE_PACKAGES}
-Source: none
-
-Requires: python3
-BuildRequires: py3-google-common
-BuildRequires: py3-protobuf
-
-%prep
-
-%build
- 
-%install
-
-mkdir -p %{i}/${PYTHON3_LIB_SITE_PACKAGES}
-for pkg in %builddirectpkgreqs ; do
-  SOURCE=%{cmsroot}/%{cmsplatf}/${pkg}/${PYTHON3_LIB_SITE_PACKAGES}
-  if [ -d $SOURCE ] ; then
-    echo "Checking for duplicates ...."
-    for f in $(ls $SOURCE) ; do
-      if [ -e %{i}/${PYTHON3_LIB_SITE_PACKAGES}/$f ] ; then 
-        # https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter_core/issues/55 - now I delete jupyter.py from one of the providers
-        #backports is an example directory that can have multiple packages inside
-        if [ $f != "backports" ] ; then  
-        if [ $f != "google" ] ; then  
-           echo "  Duplicate file found: $f"
-           exit 1
-        fi
-        fi
-
-      fi
-    done
-    echo "Copying $SOURCE in %{pkgrel}"
-#try cp instead of rsync as we don't want to overwrite duplicate directories
-#    rsync -av $SOURCE/ %{i}/${PYTHON_LIB_SITE_PACKAGES}/
-    cp -r ${SOURCE}/* %{i}/${PYTHON3_LIB_SITE_PACKAGES}/ 
-  fi
-done
-
-#and for bin
-mkdir -p %{i}/bin
-for pkg in %builddirectpkgreqs ; do
-  SOURCE=%{cmsroot}/%{cmsplatf}/${pkg}/bin
-  if [ -d $SOURCE ] ; then
-    echo "Checking for duplicates ...."
-    for f in $(ls $SOURCE) ; do
-      if [ -e %{i}/bin/$f ] ; then 
-           echo "  Duplicate file found: $f"
-           exit 1
-      fi
-    done
-    echo "Copying $SOURCE in %{pkgrel}"
-    rsync -av $SOURCE/ %{i}/bin/
-  fi
-done
-
diff --git a/python_tools.spec b/python_tools.spec
index a0451dd1fb6..27fd568bc92 100644
--- a/python_tools.spec
+++ b/python_tools.spec
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ Requires: py3-Theano
 Requires: py3-scikit-learn
 #save for the end
 Requires: py3-tensorflow
-Requires: py3-googlePackages
 Requires: py3-cmsml
 Requires: py3-law
+Requires: py3-protobuf
 
 Requires: py3-cloudpickle
 Requires: py3-tables
@@ -167,7 +167,6 @@ Requires: py3-virtualenv-clone
 Requires: py3-asn1crypto
 Requires: py3-backcall
 Requires: py3-cffi
-Requires: py3-google-common
 Requires: py3-jedi
 Requires: py3-parso
 Requires: py3-pycparser
diff --git a/tensorflow-requires.file b/tensorflow-requires.file
index 78117f1c9d0..66ab99f4bc1 100644
--- a/tensorflow-requires.file
+++ b/tensorflow-requires.file
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Requires: python3 py3-numpy py3-mock py3-wheel py3-typing py3-typing_extensions
 Requires: py3-keras-applications py3-keras-preprocessing py3-future py3-wrapt py3-gast py3-setuptools
-Requires: py3-cython py3-googlePackages py3-astor py3-six py3-termcolor py3-absl-py
+Requires: py3-cython py3-protobuf py3-astor py3-six py3-termcolor py3-absl-py
 Requires: py3-opt-einsum py3-flatbuffers
 Requires: eigen protobuf zlib libpng libjpeg-turbo curl giflib sqlite grpc flatbuffers py3-pybind11