diff --git a/deep_speech_2/datasets/librispeech/librispeech.py b/deep_speech_2/datasets/librispeech/librispeech.py
index 87e52ae4aa286503d79f1326065831acfe6bf985..7e941f0ea7f260680f60dc706fd9873532e3c8bb 100644
--- a/deep_speech_2/datasets/librispeech/librispeech.py
+++ b/deep_speech_2/datasets/librispeech/librispeech.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from __future__ import print_function
 
 import distutils.util
 import os
-import wget
+import sys
 import tarfile
 import argparse
 import soundfile
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ def download(url, md5sum, target_dir):
     filepath = os.path.join(target_dir, url.split("/")[-1])
     if not (os.path.exists(filepath) and md5file(filepath) == md5sum):
         print("Downloading %s ..." % url)
-        wget.download(url, target_dir)
+        os.system("wget -c " + url + " -P " + target_dir)
         print("\nMD5 Chesksum %s ..." % filepath)
         if not md5file(filepath) == md5sum:
             raise RuntimeError("MD5 checksum failed.")
diff --git a/deep_speech_2/requirements.txt b/deep_speech_2/requirements.txt
index eb60225999d0df058074b441ba547c4c437d89ca..131f75ff47e003f3b44f4a62f1431cf13d4f44a4 100755
--- a/deep_speech_2/requirements.txt
+++ b/deep_speech_2/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-wget==3.2
 scipy==0.13.1
 resampy==0.1.5
 SoundFile==0.9.0.post1