diff --git a/packaging/packager_pip.sh b/packaging/packager_pip.sh
index 401c8a47..b23e8e79 100644
--- a/packaging/packager_pip.sh
+++ b/packaging/packager_pip.sh
@@ -40,12 +40,6 @@ dnf -y install x11vnc
 pip3 install --upgrade pip
 pip3 install -r "$distro_root/guibot/packaging/pip_requirements.txt"
 
-# auto-review and linters
-cd "$distro_root/guibot"
-echo "Performing auto-review linting checks on code and documentation"
-pycodestyle guibot/* --ignore="E501,W503,E226,E265,E731,E306"
-pydocstyle guibot/* --ignore="D212,D205,D400,D401,D415,D203,D105,D301,D302"
-
 # pip packaging and installing of current guibot source
 pip3 install wheel twine
 cd "$distro_root/guibot/packaging"
diff --git a/packaging/pip_requirements.txt b/packaging/pip_requirements.txt
index 3352ac4f..22ae6365 100644
--- a/packaging/pip_requirements.txt
+++ b/packaging/pip_requirements.txt
@@ -22,9 +22,6 @@ Pyro4==4.82
 # coverage analysis to use for testing
 coverage
 codecov
-# linters and auto-reviews
-pycodestyle
-pydocstyle
 # GUI to use for testing
 # TODO: the most recent version at the time works on windows but not on linux
 PyQt5==5.15.6; sys_platform == 'win32' and platform_python_implementation != "PyPy"