diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write/examples/requirements.txt b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write/examples/requirements.txt
index ee4803d7d0..f049aac258 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write/examples/requirements.txt
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write/examples/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 psutil
 protobuf>=3.13.0
 requests>=2.25.0
-python-snappy
+python-snappy>=0.5.4
 opentelemetry-api
 opentelemetry-sdk
 opentelemetry-proto
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index c4ea92b463..8016924dcc 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -322,7 +322,6 @@ deps =
 
 commands_pre =
   sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev
-  pip install python-snappy
   python -m pip install {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-python-core/opentelemetry-api
   python -m pip install {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-python-core/opentelemetry-instrumentation
   python -m pip install {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-python-core/opentelemetry-sdk
@@ -386,7 +385,6 @@ changedir =
 
 commands_pre =
   sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev
-  pip install python-snappy
   pip install -e {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-python-core/opentelemetry-api \
               -e {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-python-core/opentelemetry-instrumentation \
               -e {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-python-core/opentelemetry-sdk \