diff --git a/tools/fixup_stuff.sh b/tools/fixup_stuff.sh
index ae555d5861..15b3ab767d 100755
--- a/tools/fixup_stuff.sh
+++ b/tools/fixup_stuff.sh
@@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ function fixup_ubuntu {
     # manifest of what to remove.  However, in most cases, simply
     # overwriting works.  So this hacks around those packages that
     # have been dragged in by some other system dependency
-    sudo rm -f /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/httplib2-*.egg-info
-    sudo rm -f /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyasn1_modules-*.egg-info
-    sudo rm -f /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PyYAML-*.egg-info
+    sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/httplib2-*.egg-info
+    sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyasn1_modules-*.egg-info
+    sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PyYAML-*.egg-info
 }
 
 # Python Packages