diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index 7b8508783138c478b30f59dd2b228331d0c1dc8f..98b881a9894219922ad1a6ae585559af1101b3aa 100644
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ try:
     import argparse
     import os
     import sys
-    from skimage.util.shape import view_as_blocks
+    # from skimage.util.shape import view_as_blocks
     from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import make_axes_locatable
     from scipy.interpolate import griddata
     from tqdm import tqdm
diff --git a/src/ich/algo.py b/src/ich/algo.py
index 913af1d6bf7d73538c25037b55e412ebef34ff70..91972b5d683f5f3c66bde67d9ab5ef4d4c7f9354 100644
--- a/src/ich/algo.py
+++ b/src/ich/algo.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from matplotlib import cm
 from matplotlib.colors import Normalize 
 
 from scipy.stats import linregress
-from skimage.util.shape import view_as_blocks
+# from skimage.util.shape import view_as_blocks
 from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import make_axes_locatable
 from scipy.interpolate import griddata
 from tqdm import tqdm
diff --git a/src/ich/args_in.py b/src/ich/args_in.py
index 8c935ff0878f4f81ec16e4eb897106daab19f2cf..7e269072e81e8e717bceb27a6854a872811648d2 100644
--- a/src/ich/args_in.py
+++ b/src/ich/args_in.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 from matplotlib import cm
 from matplotlib.colors import Normalize 
 from scipy.stats import linregress
-from skimage.util.shape import view_as_blocks
+# from skimage.util.shape import view_as_blocks
 from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import make_axes_locatable
 from scipy.interpolate import griddata
 from tqdm import tqdm