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@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Cargo requires the following tools and packages to build:
 
 * `python`
 * `curl` (on Unix)
-* `cmake`
 * OpenSSL headers (only for Unix, this is the `libssl-dev` package on ubuntu)
 * `cargo` and `rustc`