diff --git a/roles/2-common/tasks/packages.yml b/roles/2-common/tasks/packages.yml
index cae041643..7aab952c2 100644
--- a/roles/2-common/tasks/packages.yml
+++ b/roles/2-common/tasks/packages.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     state: present
   #when: is_debuntu
 
-- name: "Install 20 common packages: acpid, bzip2, curl, gawk, htop, i2c-tools, iproute2, logrotate, make, mlocate, net-tools, ntfs-3g, pandoc, pastebinit, rsync, sqlite3, tar, unzip, usbutils, wget"
+- name: "Install 19 common packages: acpid, bzip2, curl, gawk, htop, i2c-tools, logrotate, make, mlocate, net-tools, ntfs-3g, pandoc, pastebinit, rsync, sqlite3, tar, unzip, usbutils, wget"
   package:
     name:
       - acpid         # Daemon for ACPI (power mgmt) events
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
       - gawk
       - htop
       - i2c-tools     # Low-level bus/chip/register/EEPROM tools e.g. for RTC
-      - iproute2
+      #- iproute2     # Installed by roles/2-common/tasks/network.yml
       - logrotate
       #- lynx         # Installed by 1-prep's roles/iiab-admin/tasks/access.yml
       - make          # 2021-04-26: What roles (if any) truly still use this?