diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 325147204b5..599d9dac278 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -264,13 +264,6 @@ if (USE_INCLUDE_WHAT_YOU_USE)
     endif()
 endif ()
 
-# when installing to /usr - place configs to /etc but for /usr/local place to /usr/local/etc
-if (CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX STREQUAL "/usr")
-    set (TIFLASH_ETC_DIR "/etc")
-else ()
-    set (TIFLASH_ETC_DIR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/etc")
-endif ()
-
 option (UNBUNDLED "Try find all libraries in system (if fail - use bundled from contrib/)" OFF)
 if (UNBUNDLED)
     set(NOT_UNBUNDLED 0)
diff --git a/dbms/src/Server/CMakeLists.txt b/dbms/src/Server/CMakeLists.txt
index eca19150f81..2877d6cba00 100644
--- a/dbms/src/Server/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/dbms/src/Server/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ target_link_libraries (clickhouse-extract-from-config-lib clickhouse_common_conf
 add_library (clickhouse-client-lib Client.cpp)
 target_link_libraries (clickhouse-client-lib clickhouse_functions clickhouse_aggregate_functions ${LINE_EDITING_LIBS} ${Boost_PROGRAM_OPTIONS_LIBRARY})
 target_include_directories (clickhouse-client-lib PRIVATE ${READLINE_INCLUDE_DIR})
-install (FILES clickhouse-client.xml DESTINATION ${TIFLASH_ETC_DIR}/clickhouse-client COMPONENT clickhouse-client RENAME config.xml)
 
 add_library (clickhouse-benchmark-lib ${SPLIT_SHARED} Benchmark.cpp)
 target_link_libraries (clickhouse-benchmark-lib clickhouse-client-lib clickhouse_common_io ${Boost_PROGRAM_OPTIONS_LIBRARY})
@@ -206,8 +205,3 @@ endif ()
 
 set (GLIBC_MAX_REQUIRED 2.4)
 add_test(NAME GLIBC_required_version COMMAND bash -c "readelf -s ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/clickhouse-server | grep '@GLIBC' | grep -oP 'GLIBC_[\\d\\.]+' | sort | uniq | sort -r | perl -lnE 'exit 1 if $_ gt q{GLIBC_${GLIBC_MAX_REQUIRED}}'")
-
-install (
-    FILES config.xml users.xml
-    DESTINATION  ${TIFLASH_ETC_DIR}/clickhouse-server
-    COMPONENT tiflash)