diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index fc305a8565..055ee31ee4 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1028,7 +1028,6 @@ threads = dependency('threads')
 librt = cc.find_library('rt')
 libm = cc.find_library('m')
 libdl = cc.find_library('dl')
-libutmps = dependency('libutmps', required : false)
 
 # On some distributions that use musl (e.g. Alpine), libintl.h may be provided by gettext rather than musl.
 # In that case, we need to explicitly link with libintl.so.
diff --git a/src/login/meson.build b/src/login/meson.build
index e6cd002c6c..0ad9beb167 100644
--- a/src/login/meson.build
+++ b/src/login/meson.build
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ executables += [
                 'include_directories' : [libexec_template['include_directories'], include_directories('.')],
                 'extract' : systemd_logind_extract_sources,
                 'dependencies' : [
-                        libutmps,
                         threads,
                 ],
         },
diff --git a/src/shared/meson.build b/src/shared/meson.build
index eebadf6d3f..acc80d3e34 100644
--- a/src/shared/meson.build
+++ b/src/shared/meson.build
@@ -385,7 +385,6 @@ libshared_deps = [threads,
                   librt,
                   libseccomp_cflags,
                   libselinux_cflags,
-                  libutmps,
                   libxenctrl_cflags,
                   libxz_cflags,
                   libzstd_cflags,
diff --git a/src/test/meson.build b/src/test/meson.build
index d51911bd5b..f5b1336884 100644
--- a/src/test/meson.build
+++ b/src/test/meson.build
@@ -473,7 +473,6 @@ executables += [
         test_template + {
                 'sources' : files('test-utmp.c'),
                 'conditions' : ['ENABLE_UTMP'],
-                'dependencies' : libutmps,
         },
         test_template + {
                 'sources' : files('test-varlink.c'),