diff --git a/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control b/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control
index 59c052cc0b..085c9ef863 100644
--- a/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control
+++ b/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Architecture: all
 Maintainer: Matthew Bowra-Dean <matthew@ijw.co.nz>
 Uploaders: Maikel van den Hout <ma1kelvdh@gmail.com>, Paul Chote <sleipnir@sleipnirstuff.com>
 Installed-Size: {SIZE}	
-Depends: nvidia-cg-toolkit (>= 2.1), libopenal1, mono-runtime, libmono-winforms2.0-cil, libfreetype6, libsdl1.2debian, libgl1-mesa-glx, libgl1-mesa-dri, zenity, wget, unzip
+Depends: libopenal1, mono-runtime, libmono-winforms2.0-cil, libfreetype6, libsdl1.2debian, libgl1-mesa-glx, libgl1-mesa-dri, zenity, wget, unzip
 Section: games
 Priority: extra
 Homepage: http://www.open-ra.org/
diff --git a/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/PKGBUILD b/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/PKGBUILD
index 51b9d7642b..1fdeb8fd50 100644
--- a/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/PKGBUILD
+++ b/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/PKGBUILD
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ arch=(any)
 url="http://open-ra.org"
 license=('GPL3')
 groups=()
-depends=('mono' 'openal' 'mesa' 'nvidia-cg-toolkit' 'freetype2' 'sdl')
+depends=('mono' 'openal' 'mesa' 'freetype2' 'sdl')
 makedepends=('git' 'unzip' 'wget')
 optdepends=()
 provides=()
diff --git a/packaging/linux/rpm/openra.spec b/packaging/linux/rpm/openra.spec
index 005d31ee80..9560319c5e 100644
--- a/packaging/linux/rpm/openra.spec
+++ b/packaging/linux/rpm/openra.spec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ License: GPL3
 URL: http://open-ra.org
 Group: Amusements/Games
 Packager: Matthew Bowra-Dean <matthew@ijw.co.nz>
-Requires: mono-core mono-devel SDL freetype2 openal Mesa cg
+Requires: mono-core mono-devel SDL freetype2 openal Mesa
 Prefix: /usr
 Source: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Buildroot: /tmp/openra