diff --git a/ci/build_wheel_cpp.sh b/ci/build_wheel_cpp.sh
index 1ec979372..e21792910 100755
--- a/ci/build_wheel_cpp.sh
+++ b/ci/build_wheel_cpp.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ python -m pip wheel . -w dist -v --no-deps --disable-pip-version-check
 
 sccache --show-adv-stats
 
-python -m pip install wheel
 python -m wheel tags --platform any dist/* --remove
 
 ../../ci/validate_wheel.sh dist