diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index cd40701e..00000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-apache-libcloud==2.4.0
-applicationinsights==0.11.7
-colour==0.1.5
-chardet==3.0.4
-coverage==4.5.3
-dj-database-url==0.5.0
-Django==2.1.11
-django-cloud-browser==0.5.0
-django-cors-headers==3.1.1
-django-filter==2.0.0
-django-heroku==0.3.1
-django-webpack-loader==0.6.0
-django-widget-tweaks==1.4.2
-django-polymorphic==2.0.3
-django-pyodbc-azure==2.1.0.0
-django-rest-polymorphic==0.1.8
-djangorestframework==3.10
-djangorestframework-csv==2.1.0
-djangorestframework-filters==0.10.2
-environs==4.1.0
-djangorestframework-xml==1.4.0
-drf-yasg==1.17.1
-Faker==0.9.1
-flake8==3.6.0
-furl==2.0.0
-gunicorn==19.9.0
-lockfile==0.12.2
-model-mommy==1.6.0
-mysqlclient==1.4.2.post1
-psycopg2-binary==2.7.7
-pyexcel==0.5.14
-pyexcel-xlsx==0.5.7
-pyjwt>=1.7.1
-python-dateutil==2.7.3
-python-jose>=3.0.0
-pytz==2018.4
-requests==2.21.0
-six==1.11.0
-seqeval==0.0.6
-social-auth-app-django==3.1.0
-social-auth-core==3.3.3
-text-unidecode==1.2
-unittest-xml-reporting==2.5.1
-vcrpy==2.0.1
-vcrpy-unittest==0.1.7
-whitenoise[brotli]==4.1.2
-conllu==1.3.2
diff --git a/tools/dev-django.sh b/tools/dev-django.sh
index 16669cea..6a327fee 100755
--- a/tools/dev-django.sh
+++ b/tools/dev-django.sh
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ fi
 
 echo "Installing dependencies"
 apt-get update && apt-get install -y g++ unixodbc-dev # pyodbc build dependencies
-"${venv}/bin/pip" install --no-cache-dir -r "${root}/requirements.txt"
+"${venv}/bin/pip" install --no-cache-dir -r "${app}/requirements.txt"
 
 echo "Initializing database"
 "${venv}/bin/python" "${app}/manage.py" wait_for_db