diff --git a/src/calibre/trac/plugins/templates/linux.html b/src/calibre/trac/plugins/templates/linux.html
index 58c3e8ad6a..b948dccc74 100644
--- a/src/calibre/trac/plugins/templates/linux.html
+++ b/src/calibre/trac/plugins/templates/linux.html
@@ -82,10 +82,6 @@ sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen('http://calibre.kovidgoyal.
                             </pre>
                             <h4>Note</h4>
                             <ul>
-                                <li>On some linux distributions, you have to install the
-                                    libphonon (may be called libphonon4) package for calibre
-                                    to work.
-                                </li>
                                 <li>
                                     When running the command line utilities,
                                     they will segfault after completion. This can