diff --git a/contrib/build-linux/appimage/build.sh b/contrib/build-linux/appimage/build.sh
index c5733ff56..64a2f6129 100755
--- a/contrib/build-linux/appimage/build.sh
+++ b/contrib/build-linux/appimage/build.sh
@@ -134,10 +134,10 @@ info "preparing electrum-locale."
 
 info "installing electrum and its dependencies."
 mkdir -p "$CACHEDIR/pip_cache"
-"$python" -m pip install --no-warn-script-location --cache-dir "$CACHEDIR/pip_cache" -r "$CONTRIB/deterministic-build/requirements.txt"
-"$python" -m pip install --no-warn-script-location --cache-dir "$CACHEDIR/pip_cache" -r "$CONTRIB/deterministic-build/requirements-binaries.txt"
-"$python" -m pip install --no-warn-script-location --cache-dir "$CACHEDIR/pip_cache" -r "$CONTRIB/deterministic-build/requirements-hw.txt"
-"$python" -m pip install --no-warn-script-location --cache-dir "$CACHEDIR/pip_cache" "$PROJECT_ROOT"
+"$python" -m pip install --no-dependencies --no-warn-script-location --cache-dir "$CACHEDIR/pip_cache" -r "$CONTRIB/deterministic-build/requirements.txt"
+"$python" -m pip install --no-dependencies --no-warn-script-location --cache-dir "$CACHEDIR/pip_cache" -r "$CONTRIB/deterministic-build/requirements-binaries.txt"
+"$python" -m pip install --no-dependencies --no-warn-script-location --cache-dir "$CACHEDIR/pip_cache" -r "$CONTRIB/deterministic-build/requirements-hw.txt"
+"$python" -m pip install --no-dependencies --no-warn-script-location --cache-dir "$CACHEDIR/pip_cache" "$PROJECT_ROOT"
 
 
 info "copying zbar"
diff --git a/contrib/build-wine/build-electrum-git.sh b/contrib/build-wine/build-electrum-git.sh
index b76403651..39515e4b3 100755
--- a/contrib/build-wine/build-electrum-git.sh
+++ b/contrib/build-wine/build-electrum-git.sh
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ popd
 
 
 # Install frozen dependencies
-$PYTHON -m pip install --no-warn-script-location -r "$CONTRIB"/deterministic-build/requirements.txt
+$PYTHON -m pip install --no-dependencies --no-warn-script-location -r "$CONTRIB"/deterministic-build/requirements.txt
 
-$PYTHON -m pip install --no-warn-script-location -r "$CONTRIB"/deterministic-build/requirements-hw.txt
+$PYTHON -m pip install --no-dependencies --no-warn-script-location -r "$CONTRIB"/deterministic-build/requirements-hw.txt
 
 pushd $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/electrum
 # see https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2195 -- pip makes a copy of the entire directory
diff --git a/contrib/build-wine/prepare-wine.sh b/contrib/build-wine/prepare-wine.sh
index c3e9d8eec..c25b79e96 100755
--- a/contrib/build-wine/prepare-wine.sh
+++ b/contrib/build-wine/prepare-wine.sh
@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ for msifile in core dev exe lib pip tools; do
 done
 
 info "Installing build dependencies."
-$PYTHON -m pip install --no-warn-script-location -r "$CONTRIB"/deterministic-build/requirements-wine-build.txt
+$PYTHON -m pip install --no-dependencies --no-warn-script-location -r "$CONTRIB"/deterministic-build/requirements-wine-build.txt
 
 info "Installing dependencies specific to binaries."
-$PYTHON -m pip install --no-warn-script-location -r "$CONTRIB"/deterministic-build/requirements-binaries.txt
+$PYTHON -m pip install --no-dependencies --no-warn-script-location -r "$CONTRIB"/deterministic-build/requirements-binaries.txt
 
 info "Installing ZBar."
 download_if_not_exist "$CACHEDIR/$ZBAR_FILENAME" "$ZBAR_URL"
diff --git a/contrib/osx/make_osx b/contrib/osx/make_osx
index d16c9c1d1..968bab48c 100755
--- a/contrib/osx/make_osx
+++ b/contrib/osx/make_osx
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ fail "Unable to use Python $PYTHON_VERSION"
 
 info "install dependencies specific to binaries"
 # note that this also installs pinned versions of both pip and setuptools
-python3 -m pip install -Ir ./contrib/deterministic-build/requirements-binaries.txt --user \
+python3 -m pip install --no-dependencies -Ir ./contrib/deterministic-build/requirements-binaries.txt --user \
     || fail "Could not install pyinstaller"
 
 
@@ -119,15 +119,15 @@ DoCodeSignMaybe "CalinsQRReader.app" "${d}/build/Release/CalinsQRReader.app" "$A
 
 
 info "Installing requirements..."
-python3 -m pip install -Ir ./contrib/deterministic-build/requirements.txt --user || \
+python3 -m pip install --no-dependencies -Ir ./contrib/deterministic-build/requirements.txt --user || \
 fail "Could not install requirements"
 
 info "Installing hardware wallet requirements..."
-python3 -m pip install -Ir ./contrib/deterministic-build/requirements-hw.txt --user || \
+python3 -m pip install --no-dependencies -Ir ./contrib/deterministic-build/requirements-hw.txt --user || \
 fail "Could not install hardware wallet requirements"
 
 info "Building $PACKAGE..."
-python3 -m pip install --user . > /dev/null || fail "Could not build $PACKAGE"
+python3 -m pip install --no-dependencies --user . > /dev/null || fail "Could not build $PACKAGE"
 
 info "Faking timestamps..."
 for d in ~/Library/Python/ ~/.pyenv .; do