diff --git a/install_puppet.sh b/install_puppet.sh
index f83d1c4977..a50b882f96 100755
--- a/install_puppet.sh
+++ b/install_puppet.sh
@@ -110,12 +110,13 @@ function setup_puppet_fedora {
     # and then something like devstack does a "yum install
     # python-requests" which does a very bad job at overwriting the
     # pip-installed version (symlinks and existing directories don't
-    # mix).  The solution is to pre-install the python-requests
+    # mix).  A solution is to pre-install the python-requests
     # package; clear it out and re-install from pip.  This way, the
     # package is installed for dependencies, and we have a pip-managed
     # requests with correctly vendored sub-packages.
     sudo ${YUM} install -y python-requests
     sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/*
+    sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-*.{egg,dist}-info
     sudo pip install requests
 }