diff --git a/.github/workflows/windows.yaml b/.github/workflows/windows.yaml
index bd1db1890..b76566a58 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/windows.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/windows.yaml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install base dependencies
       run: |
         # List adapted from https://github.com/gazebo-tooling/release-tools/blob/f89ac8cafc646260598eb8eb6d94be8093bdc9f7/jenkins-scripts/lib/windows_env_vars.bat#L22
-        pixi add assimp cli11 dlfcn-win32 eigen ffmpeg freeimage gdal gflags ogre ogre-next spdlog tinyxml2
+        pixi add assimp cli11 dlfcn-win32 eigen ffmpeg gdal gflags ogre ogre-next spdlog tinyxml2
     - name: Clone source dependencies
       run: |
         mkdir src
diff --git a/package.xml b/package.xml
index 6d69de98f..e8cf1a360 100644
--- a/package.xml
+++ b/package.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
   <depend>gz-math</depend>
   <depend>gz-plugin</depend>
   <depend>gz-utils</depend>
-  <depend>libfreeimage-dev</depend>
   <depend>libglew-dev</depend>
   <depend>libogre-dev</depend>
   <depend>libogre-next-2.3-dev</depend>