diff --git a/bench/cli.py b/bench/cli.py
index 9dcb8707..a16d90e5 100644
--- a/bench/cli.py
+++ b/bench/cli.py
@@ -380,12 +380,6 @@ config.add_command(config_http_timeout)
 def patch():
 	pass
 
-@click.command('mariadb-config')
-def _patch_mariadb_config():
-	"patch MariaDB 5.5.40"
-	repo_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
-	exec_cmd(os.path.join(repo_dir, 'patches', 'fix-mariadb.sh'), cwd=os.path.join(repo_dir, 'patches'))
-
 @click.command('fix-perms')
 def _fix_perms():
 	if os.path.exists("config/supervisor.conf"):
@@ -419,7 +413,6 @@ def _fix_perms():
 		exec_cmd("supervisorctl reload")
 
 
-patch.add_command(_patch_mariadb_config)
 patch.add_command(_fix_perms)
 
 #Bench commands
diff --git a/bench/patches/fix-mariadb.sh b/bench/patches/fix-mariadb.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 47fad4d5..00000000
--- a/bench/patches/fix-mariadb.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-
-
-# stolen from http://cgit.drupalcode.org/octopus/commit/?id=db4f837
-includedir=`mysql_config --variable=pkgincludedir`
-thiscwd=`pwd`
-_THIS_DB_VERSION=`mysql -V 2>&1 | tr -d "\n" | cut -d" " -f6 | awk '{ print $1}' | cut -d"-" -f1 | awk '{ print $1}' | sed "s/[\,']//g"`
-if [ "$_THIS_DB_VERSION" = "5.5.40" ] && [ ! -e "$includedir-$_THIS_DB_VERSION-fixed.log" ] ; then
-  cd $includedir
-  sudo patch -p1 < $thiscwd/my_config.h.patch &> /dev/null
-  sudo touch $includedir-$_THIS_DB_VERSION-fixed.log
-fi
diff --git a/bench/patches/my_config.h.patch b/bench/patches/my_config.h.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5247b5b3..00000000
--- a/bench/patches/my_config.h.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-diff -burp a/my_config.h b/my_config.h
---- a/my_config.h	2014-10-09 19:32:46.000000000 -0400
-+++ b/my_config.h	2014-10-09 19:35:12.000000000 -0400
-@@ -641,17 +641,4 @@
- #define SIZEOF_TIME_T 8
- /* #undef TIME_T_UNSIGNED */
-
--/*
--  stat structure (from <sys/stat.h>) is conditionally defined
--  to have different layout and size depending on the defined macros.
--  The correct macro is defined in my_config.h, which means it MUST be
--  included first (or at least before <features.h> - so, practically,
--  before including any system headers).
--
--  __GLIBC__ is defined in <features.h>
--*/
--#ifdef __GLIBC__
--#error <my_config.h> MUST be included first!
--#endif
--
- #endif
-
diff --git a/bench/utils.py b/bench/utils.py
index e199669f..52d8993a 100644
--- a/bench/utils.py
+++ b/bench/utils.py
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ def exec_cmd(cmd, cwd='.'):
 def setup_env(bench='.'):
 	exec_cmd('virtualenv -q {} -p {}'.format('env', sys.executable), cwd=bench)
 	exec_cmd('./env/bin/pip -q install wheel', cwd=bench)
+	exec_cmd('./env/bin/pip -q install https://github.com/frappe/MySQLdb1/archive/MySQLdb-1.2.5-patched.tar.gz', cwd=bench)
 
 def setup_procfile(bench='.'):
 	with open(os.path.join(bench, 'Procfile'), 'w') as f:
diff --git a/install_scripts/setup_frappe.sh b/install_scripts/setup_frappe.sh
index d04981cb..1bf1a217 100644
--- a/install_scripts/setup_frappe.sh
+++ b/install_scripts/setup_frappe.sh
@@ -310,8 +310,6 @@ install_bench() {
 		exit 1
 	fi
 	run_cmd sudo $PIP install -e /home/$FRAPPE_USER/bench-repo
-	# temp MariaDB fix
-	sudo bench patch mariadb-config
 }
 
 setup_bench() {