diff --git a/roles/run-test/templates/toci_gate_test.sh.j2 b/roles/run-test/templates/toci_gate_test.sh.j2
index dd03d2b2a..0ae4c518b 100755
--- a/roles/run-test/templates/toci_gate_test.sh.j2
+++ b/roles/run-test/templates/toci_gate_test.sh.j2
@@ -46,10 +46,8 @@ $(python_cmd) -m pip --version || \
     (curl -s "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py" -o "get-pip.py"; sudo $(python_cmd) get-pip.py)
 
 if [ "$(python_cmd)" == "python3" ]; then
-    sudo $(package_manager) reinstall python3-setuptools
     sudo $(package_manager) install python3-setuptools python3-requests python3-urllib3 python3-PyYAML shyaml
 else
-    sudo $(package_manager) reinstall python2-setuptools
     sudo $(package_manager) install python2-setuptools python2-requests python-requests python-urllib3 PyYAML
 fi