diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index b8c695d2c..f00116542 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -39,18 +39,9 @@ pushd $ROOT/app
 npm install
 popd
 
-pushd "$ROOT/lbry"
-pip install -r requirements.txt
-# need to install our version of lbryum, not
-# what is currently on master
-pushd "$ROOT/lbryum"
-pip install .
-popd
-pip install .
-popd
-
 (
   cd "$ROOT/lbrynet"
+  pip install -r posix.txt
   pyinstaller -y lbry.onefile.spec
 )
 
diff --git a/lbrynet/build.ps1 b/lbrynet/build.ps1
index b097f7211..7732c823b 100644
--- a/lbrynet/build.ps1
+++ b/lbrynet/build.ps1
@@ -16,9 +16,7 @@ python.exe setupmingw32.py install
 cd ..\..\
 Remove-Item -Recurse -Force temp
 
-pip.exe install -r windows-requirements.txt
-pip.exe install ..\lbryum
-pip.exe install ..\lbry
 pip.exe install pyinstaller
+pip.exe install -r windows.txt
 
 pyinstaller -y lbry.onefile.spec
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lbrynet/posix.txt b/lbrynet/posix.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..abd23e747
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lbrynet/posix.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+-r requirements.txt
+miniupnpc==1.9
+gmpy==1.17
diff --git a/lbrynet/windows-requirements.txt b/lbrynet/requirements.txt
similarity index 65%
rename from lbrynet/windows-requirements.txt
rename to lbrynet/requirements.txt
index 3d7024332..6bfdc7169 100644
--- a/lbrynet/windows-requirements.txt
+++ b/lbrynet/requirements.txt
@@ -1,30 +1,30 @@
-pypiwin32==219
-six==1.10.0
-requests[security]==2.13.0
-zope.interface==4.3.3
 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
-loggly-python-handler==1.0.0
+jsonschema==2.5.1
+# for electron, we install lbryum, lbrynet using submodules
+../lbryum
+../lbry
 pbkdf2==1.3
 protobuf==3.0.0
 pycrypto==2.6.1
-python-bitcoinrpc==0.1
 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
 simplejson==3.8.2
+six>=1.9.0
 slowaes==0.1a1
 txJSON-RPC==0.5
 wsgiref==0.1.2
-base58==0.2.2
-googlefinance==0.7
-jsonschema==2.5.1
-https://github.com/lbryio/lbry/raw/master/packaging/windows/libs/gmpy-1.17-cp27-none-win32.whl
+zope.interface==4.3.3
diff --git a/lbrynet/windows.txt b/lbrynet/windows.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f911e4f3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lbrynet/windows.txt
@@ -0,0 +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