diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 4d2e2b0ff..92d956dd8 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -73,17 +73,9 @@ macro (config_hook)
     if(NOT cjson_FOUND)
       list(APPEND EXTRA_INCLUDES ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/external/cjson)
     endif()
-    if(TARGET fmt::fmt)
-      get_target_property(fmt_INCLUDES fmt::fmt INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES)
-    elseif(TARGET fmt)
-      get_target_property(fmt_INCLUDES fmt INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES)
-    else()
-      message(FATAL_ERROR "Cannot identify fmt target to use")
-    endif()
-    add_definitions(-DFMT_HEADER_ONLY)
 
     # For this project
-    include_directories(${EXTRA_INCLUDES} ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include ${fmt_INCLUDES})
+    include_directories(${EXTRA_INCLUDES} ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include)
 
     # For downstreams
     list(APPEND EXTRA_INCLUDES ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include)
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 888a636f7..a16467871 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Build-Depends: build-essential, debhelper (>= 9),
                ghostscript, libboost-system-dev, libboost-test-dev,
                zlib1g-dev, libpython3-dev, python3-numpy, python3-distutils,
                python3-setuptools, python3-setuptools-scm, python3-pytest-runner,
-               python3-decorator, libfmt-dev
+               python3-decorator
 Standards-Version: 3.9.2
 Section: libs
 Homepage: http://opm-project.org
diff --git a/redhat/opm-common.spec b/redhat/opm-common.spec
index f671f1695..0521015a2 100644
--- a/redhat/opm-common.spec
+++ b/redhat/opm-common.spec
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ License:        GPL-3.0
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
 Url:            http://www.opm-project.org/
 Source0:        https://github.com/OPM/%{name}/archive/release/%{version}/%{tag}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRequires:  git doxygen bc openmpi-devel mpich-devel fmt-devel
+BuildRequires:  git doxygen bc openmpi-devel mpich-devel
 %{?!el8:BuildRequires: devtoolset-8-toolchain}
 %{?el8:BuildRequires: boost-devel}
 %{?!el8:BuildRequires: boost148-devel}