diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index faaba6cd..0f4ac516 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ GridVisualize = "5eed8a63-0fb0-45eb-886d-8d5a387d12b8"
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
 LinearSolve = "7ed4a6bd-45f5-4d41-b270-4a48e9bafcae"
 Printf = "de0858da-6303-5e67-8744-51eddeeeb8d7"
-Requires = "ae029012-a4dd-5104-9daa-d747884805df"
 SciMLBase = "0bca4576-84f4-4d90-8ffe-ffa030f20462"
 SparseArrays = "2f01184e-e22b-5df5-ae63-d93ebab69eaf"
 SparseDiffTools = "47a9eef4-7e08-11e9-0b38-333d64bd3804"
@@ -32,9 +31,8 @@ ExtendableSparse = "1.5.3"
 ForwardDiff = "0.10.35"
 GridVisualize = "1.8.1"
 LinearAlgebra = "1.9"
-LinearSolve = "2"
+LinearSolve = "2, 3"
 Printf = "1.9"
-Requires = "1.3"
 SciMLBase = "2.6"
 SparseArrays = "1.9"
 SparseDiffTools = "^1.19,2"
diff --git a/src/ExtendableFEM.jl b/src/ExtendableFEM.jl
index 311fc786..bac087bd 100644
--- a/src/ExtendableFEM.jl
+++ b/src/ExtendableFEM.jl
@@ -74,9 +74,6 @@ using Symbolics: Symbolics
 using SciMLBase: SciMLBase
 using UnicodePlots: UnicodePlots
 
-if !isdefined(Base, :get_extension)
-    using Requires
-end
 
 ## reexport stuff from ExtendableFEMBase and ExtendableGrids
 export FESpace, FEMatrix, FEVector