diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8bac00ca9c197b4160e70db91d359661b8673229..d2dc3b27608dc4b5ef3cbb33a61edb0529150a3b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ the prerequsites manually. The following is a list of the preequsites that need
     pynmea2 >= 1.4.2
     pyserial >= 2.7
     requests >= 2.7.0
-    MySQLdb >= 1.2.5
-    mysql >= 2.1.3
 
 The application is written for python 3 specifically, it may not work with python 2. Once installed copy the
 apex.cfg.example file over to apex.cfg in the same directory, then edit the file and replace it with your details. Next
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2d5deba8b7e586566a570f39fd9db2554bae7791..bfe7ce7663cfd996a6f0cb06b850bcecf1a64487 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -54,8 +54,6 @@ setup(
         'pynmea2 >= 1.4.2',
         'pyserial >= 2.7',
         'requests >= 2.7.0',
-        'MySQLdb >= 1.2.5',
-        'mysql >= 2.1.3',
         'cachetools >= 1.1.5'
     ],
     package_dir={'apex': 'apex'},