diff --git a/conf/distro/include/omnect-os-distro.conf b/conf/distro/include/omnect-os-distro.conf
index 3baa5881..357c6c58 100644
--- a/conf/distro/include/omnect-os-distro.conf
+++ b/conf/distro/include/omnect-os-distro.conf
@@ -156,7 +156,10 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN}:pn-gobject-introspection = ""
 SHAREDMIMEDEP:pn-glib-2.0 = ""
 
 # rm not used dependencies from docker:
-DEPENDS:remove:pn-docker-moby = "sqlite btrfs-tools"
+DEPENDS:remove:pn-docker-moby = "sqlite3 btrfs-tools"
+
+# rm not used dependencies from python3:
+DEPENDS:remove:pn-python3 = "sqlite3"
 
 # define default devel tools to be included in image
 OMNECT_DEVEL_TOOLS = "\