diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index 9902b419e..0c50f1984 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -2,4 +2,3 @@ pytest
 pytest-cov
 pytest-mock
 codecov
-chardet==3.0.4
diff --git a/tljh/installer.py b/tljh/installer.py
index 05b0ef70b..a07f06e9b 100644
--- a/tljh/installer.py
+++ b/tljh/installer.py
@@ -139,7 +139,6 @@ def ensure_jupyterhub_package(prefix):
             "jupyterhub-tmpauthenticator==0.6.*",
             "oauthenticator==14.*",
             "jupyterhub-idle-culler==1.*",
-            "chardet==4.*",
             "git+https://github.com/yuvipanda/jupyterhub-configurator@317759e17c8e48de1b1352b836dac2a230536dba"
         ],
     )