diff --git a/gnu/packages/astronomy.scm b/gnu/packages/astronomy.scm
index bde29f7990..00e262c94f 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/astronomy.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/astronomy.scm
@@ -411,7 +411,6 @@ wide set of telescopes.")
            fftwf
            gfortran
            hdf5
-           lapack
            ncurses
            openblas
            python