diff --git a/recipes/hicberg/meta.yaml b/recipes/hicberg/meta.yaml
index 2c4bf17274330..e86038fb395e1 100644
--- a/recipes/hicberg/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/hicberg/meta.yaml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ requirements:
     - cooler
     - funcy
     - hicstuff
-    - matplotlib
+    - matplotlib-base
     - numpy
     - pandas
     - pip