diff --git a/install_minimal/airtime-install b/install_minimal/airtime-install
index 950712d88..f15e24b33 100755
--- a/install_minimal/airtime-install
+++ b/install_minimal/airtime-install
@@ -75,14 +75,10 @@ SCRIPT=`readlink -f $0`
 SCRIPTPATH=`dirname $SCRIPT`
 AIRTIMEROOT=$SCRIPTPATH/../
 
-#Check if required zend mvc and php-db libraries are present. This is a temporary workaround for 2.0.1, 
-#and we should probably create a seperate file that checks whether ALL dependencies are satisfied before 
+#Check if required zend mvc library is present. This is a temporary workaround for 2.0.1, 
+#and we should probably create a separate file that checks whether ALL dependencies are satisfied before 
 #allowing the install to continue. However in that case, we wouldn't check for Debian packages so that we 
 #can become less Debian platform dependent in the future...
-set +e
-dpkg -l | grep php-db > /dev/null 2>&1
-PHP_DB=$?
-
 dpkg -l | grep zendframework > /dev/null 2>&1
 ZENDFRAMEWORK=$?
 
@@ -90,11 +86,6 @@ dpkg -l | grep libzend-framework-php > /dev/null 2>&1
 LIBZEND=$?
 set -e
 
-if [ "$PHP_DB" != "0" ]; then
-    echo "php-db package missing. Please run airtime-full-install"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
 if [ "$ZENDFRAMEWORK" != "0" -a "$LIBZEND" != "0" ]; then
     echo "zendframework/libzend-framework-php package missing. Please run airtime-full-install"
     exit 1