diff --git a/deploy/requirements-deploy.txt b/deploy/requirements-deploy.txt
index 5003efc4..3ad8398b 100644
--- a/deploy/requirements-deploy.txt
+++ b/deploy/requirements-deploy.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-scikit-build
+scikit-build>=0.16.4
diff --git a/deploy/setup.py b/deploy/setup.py
index 03e1deaf..0c12970f 100644
--- a/deploy/setup.py
+++ b/deploy/setup.py
@@ -3,15 +3,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import print_function
 from os import sys, path
-
-try:
-    from skbuild import setup
-except ImportError:
-    print('scikit-build is required to build from source.', file=sys.stderr)
-    print('Please run:', file=sys.stderr)
-    print('', file=sys.stderr)
-    print('  python -m pip install scikit-build')
-    sys.exit(1)
+from skbuild import setup
 
 sys.path.append(path.dirname(path.dirname(path.abspath(__file__))))
 from sgextVersion import get_versions
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 50e83a41..b3a0fb3b 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-scikit-build
+scikit-build>=0.16.4
 numpy