diff --git a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
index cff2ad3907..45fdc19b95 100644
--- a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ def check_sanity(e):
 	if not check_app_exists('${BUILD_PREFIX}g++', e.data):
 		missing = missing + "C++ Compiler (${BUILD_PREFIX}g++),"
 
-	required_utilities = "patch help2man diffstat texi2html makeinfo cvs svn bzip2 tar gzip gawk md5sum"
+	required_utilities = "patch help2man diffstat texi2html makeinfo cvs svn bzip2 tar gzip gawk"
 
 	# qemu-native needs gcc 3.x
 	if "qemu-native" not in assume_provided and "gcc3-native" in assume_provided: