diff --git a/externals/CMakeLists.txt b/externals/CMakeLists.txt
index 48d7f456c02de2ba19e66ffc0bdb424155f9922e..456f0fa43f228509e96b2c76f641f26b8937a48e 100644
--- a/externals/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/externals/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3582,8 +3582,7 @@ LCGPackage_Add(
 #---VTK-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 LCGPackage_Add(
   VTK
-  ENVIRONMENT LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${Qt5_home}/lib:\$ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
-       "CPPFLAGS=-Wno-incompatible-function-pointer-types"
+  ENVIRONMENT  "CPPFLAGS=-Wno-incompatible-function-pointer-types"
        "CXXFLAGS=-Wno-incompatible-function-pointer-types"
        "CFLAGS=-Wno-incompatible-function-pointer-types"
   URL ${GenURL}/VTK-<VTK_native_version>.tar.gz
@@ -3606,7 +3605,7 @@ LCGPackage_Add(
              -DVTK_MODULE_USE_EXTERNAL_VTK_verdict:BOOL=OFF
              -DVTK_MODULE_USE_EXTERNAL_VTK_glew:BOOL=OFF
              -DVTK_MODULE_USE_EXTERNAL_VTK_fmt:BOOL=OFF
-	     DEPENDS libxml2 glib expat Qt5 utf8cpp zlib png eigen tiff jpeg double_conversion lz4 hdf5 netcdfc proj gl2ps jsonmcpp jsoncpp
+	     DEPENDS libxml2 glib expat utf8cpp zlib png eigen tiff jpeg double_conversion lz4 hdf5 netcdfc proj gl2ps jsonmcpp jsoncpp
              IF <VTK_<NATIVE_VERSION>_Qt> EQUAL 5 THEN Qt5 ENDIF
              IF <VTK_<NATIVE_VERSION>_Qt> EQUAL 6 THEN Qt6 ENDIF
 )