diff --git a/daemon/build.ps1 b/daemon/build.ps1
index c7e396570..f367e3308 100644
--- a/daemon/build.ps1
+++ b/daemon/build.ps1
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ gcc --version
 mingw32-make --version
 
 mkdir temp
-Invoke-WebRequest "https://pypi.python.org/packages/55/90/e987e28ed29b571f315afea7d317b6bf4a551e37386b344190cffec60e72/miniupnpc-1.9.tar.gz" -OutFile "temp\miniupnpc-1.9.tar.gz"
+mv miniupnpc-1.9.tar.gz temp\miniupnpc-1.9.tar.gz
 cd temp
 tar zxf miniupnpc-1.9.tar.gz
 cd miniupnpc-1.9
@@ -16,11 +16,13 @@ python.exe setupmingw32.py install
 cd ..\..\
 Remove-Item -Recurse -Force temp
 
-# copy requirements from lbry, but remove lbryum (we'll add it back in below)
-Get-Content ..\lbry\requirements.txt | Where-Object {$_ -notmatch 'lbryum'} | Set-Content requirements.txt
+# copy requirements from lbry, but remove lbryum (we'll add it back in below) and gmpy and miniupnpc (installed manually)
+$Skip = @("*lbryum*","*gmpy*","*miniupnpc*")
+Get-Content ..\lbry\requirements.txt | Where-Object {$_ -notlike $Skip} | Set-Content requirements.txt
 # for electron, we install lbryum and lbry using submodules
 Add-Content requirements.txt "`n../lbryum"
 Add-Content requirements.txt "`n../lbry"
+Get-Content requirements.txt
 
 pip.exe install pyinstaller
 pip.exe install -r windows.txt
diff --git a/daemon/linux_macos.txt b/daemon/linux_macos.txt
index 2cb8de79e..5a32a8e62 100644
--- a/daemon/linux_macos.txt
+++ b/daemon/linux_macos.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
 -r requirements.txt
-miniupnpc==1.9
-gmpy==1.17
 PyInstaller==3.2.1
diff --git a/daemon/miniupnpc-1.9.tar.gz b/daemon/miniupnpc-1.9.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..85deda499
Binary files /dev/null and b/daemon/miniupnpc-1.9.tar.gz differ
diff --git a/daemon/requirements.txt b/daemon/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index bef178815..000000000
--- a/daemon/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-Twisted==16.6.0
-appdirs==1.4.0
-argparse==1.2.1
-base58==0.2.2
-colorama==0.3.7
-dnspython==1.12.0
-ecdsa==0.13
-envparse==0.2.0
-googlefinance==0.7
-jsonrpc==1.2
-jsonrpclib==0.1.7
-jsonschema==2.5.1
-# for electron, we install lbryum, lbry using submodules
-../lbryum
-../lbry
-pbkdf2==1.3
-protobuf==3.0.0
-pycrypto==2.6.1
-pyyaml==3.12
-qrcode==5.2.2
-requests==2.9.1
-requests_futures==0.9.7
-seccure==0.3.1.3
-service_identity==16.0.0
-six>=1.9.0
-slowaes==0.1a1
-txJSON-RPC==0.5
-wsgiref==0.1.2
-zope.interface==4.3.3
diff --git a/daemon/windows.txt b/daemon/windows.txt
index f911e4f3a..0965e1f0f 100644
--- a/daemon/windows.txt
+++ b/daemon/windows.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 -r requirements.txt
-# on windows miniupnpc needs to be installed manually
-https://github.com/lbryio/lbry/raw/master/packaging/windows/libs/gmpy-1.17-cp27-none-win32.whl
+# miniupnpc is installed manually
+./gmpy-1.17-cp27-none-win32.whl