diff --git a/manifests/params.pp b/manifests/params.pp
index 90564a58..a02cc2c1 100644
--- a/manifests/params.pp
+++ b/manifests/params.pp
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ class tempest::params {
         'libxml2-devel',
         'openssl-devel',
         'libffi-devel',
-        'patch',
         'gcc'
       ]
       $python_telemetry_tests  = 'python3-telemetry-tests-tempest'
@@ -41,7 +40,6 @@ class tempest::params {
         'libxml2-dev',
         'libssl-dev',
         'libffi-dev',
-        'patch',
         'gcc'
       ]
       $python_telemetry_tests  = 'telemetry-tempest-plugin'
diff --git a/spec/classes/tempest_init_spec.rb b/spec/classes/tempest_init_spec.rb
index 3970ee28..ddc149bc 100644
--- a/spec/classes/tempest_init_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/classes/tempest_init_spec.rb
@@ -571,7 +571,6 @@ describe 'tempest' do
                                        'libxml2-dev',
                                        'libssl-dev',
                                        'libffi-dev',
-                                       'patch',
                                        'gcc'],
             :package_name          => 'tempest',
             :pip_command           => 'pip3',
@@ -585,7 +584,6 @@ describe 'tempest' do
                                        'libxml2-devel',
                                        'openssl-devel',
                                        'libffi-devel',
-                                       'patch',
                                        'gcc'],
             :package_name          => 'openstack-tempest',
             :pip_command           => 'pip3',