diff --git a/libguestfs.spec b/libguestfs.spec
index 439097f..e0991ef 100644
--- a/libguestfs.spec
+++ b/libguestfs.spec
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ BuildRequires:  btrfsprogs
 BuildRequires:  zerofree
 BuildRequires:  ntfsprogs
 BuildRequires:  rsync
-BuildRequires:  compress
 BuildRequires:  cryptsetup
 %if %suse_version < 1210
 # perl as included in openSuSE 11.4 has this, but an older version without html_charset