diff --git a/ceph-releases/ALL/centos-arm64/8/daemon-base/__GPERFTOOLS_LIBS__ b/ceph-releases/ALL/centos-arm64/8/daemon-base/__GPERFTOOLS_LIBS__
deleted file mode 120000
index c476913af..000000000
--- a/ceph-releases/ALL/centos-arm64/8/daemon-base/__GPERFTOOLS_LIBS__
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../../../centos/8/daemon-base/__GPERFTOOLS_LIBS__
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ceph-releases/ALL/centos-arm64/daemon-base/__GPERFTOOLS_LIBS__ b/ceph-releases/ALL/centos-arm64/daemon-base/__GPERFTOOLS_LIBS__
deleted file mode 120000
index e469c3a2f..000000000
--- a/ceph-releases/ALL/centos-arm64/daemon-base/__GPERFTOOLS_LIBS__
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../../centos/daemon-base/__GPERFTOOLS_LIBS__
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ceph-releases/ALL/centos/8/daemon-base/__GPERFTOOLS_LIBS__ b/ceph-releases/ALL/centos/8/daemon-base/__GPERFTOOLS_LIBS__
deleted file mode 100644
index cc511adfc..000000000
--- a/ceph-releases/ALL/centos/8/daemon-base/__GPERFTOOLS_LIBS__
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
---enablerepo='epel-testing' gperftools-libs
diff --git a/ceph-releases/ALL/centos/daemon-base/__DOCKERFILE_INSTALL__ b/ceph-releases/ALL/centos/daemon-base/__DOCKERFILE_INSTALL__
index 29982b758..1d5482ca0 100644
--- a/ceph-releases/ALL/centos/daemon-base/__DOCKERFILE_INSTALL__
+++ b/ceph-releases/ALL/centos/daemon-base/__DOCKERFILE_INSTALL__
@@ -61,5 +61,4 @@ bash -c ' \
     yum copr enable -y tchaikov/python-scikit-learn ; \
     yum install -y python3-scikit-learn ; \
   fi ' && \
-yum install -y __GPERFTOOLS_LIBS__ && \
 yum install -y __CEPH_BASE_PACKAGES__
diff --git a/ceph-releases/ALL/centos/daemon-base/__GPERFTOOLS_LIBS__ b/ceph-releases/ALL/centos/daemon-base/__GPERFTOOLS_LIBS__
deleted file mode 100644
index b011ed10b..000000000
--- a/ceph-releases/ALL/centos/daemon-base/__GPERFTOOLS_LIBS__
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-gperftools-libs