diff --git a/README b/README
index 43d61601e5..2975e5ce6b 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ This is the buildsystem for the OpenWrt Linux distribution
 Please use "make menuconfig" to configure your appreciated
 configuration for the toolchain and firmware.
 
-You need to have installed gcc, binutils, patch, bzip2, flex, bison,
+You need to have installed gcc, binutils, patch, bzip2, flex,
 make, gettext, pkg-config, unzip, libz-dev and libc headers.
 
 Simply running 'make' will build your firmware.