diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index aa2d611..f9d83c4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 NEWS
 ----
 
+New in 2.0.4:
+- remove the install_requires from setup.py
+
+New in 2.0.2a0, 2.0.3:
+- attempts to fix installation in PyPi
+
 New in 2.0.2:
 - removed shebang from example/cupstree.py
 - ignore driverless utilities for postscriptdriver tags creation (Fedora bug #1873385)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 24dd7d4..a7873eb 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 
 from distutils.core import setup, Extension
 import sys
-VERSION="2.0.3"
+VERSION="2.0.4"
 libraries=["cups"]
 
 if sys.platform == "darwin" or sys.platform.startswith("freebsd"):
@@ -61,10 +61,6 @@
            "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
            ],
        license="GPLv2+",
-       install_requires=[
-           'gcc',
-           'python3-devel',
-       ],
        ext_modules=[Extension("cups",
                               ["cupsmodule.c", "cupsconnection.c",
                                "cupsppd.c", "cupsipp.c"],