diff --git a/conda/artiq/meta.yaml b/conda/artiq/meta.yaml
index c0ebf8442..8202d2bc8 100644
--- a/conda/artiq/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda/artiq/meta.yaml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ requirements:
     - sphinx-argparse
     - h5py
     - dateutil
-    - pyqt 5.*
+    - pyqt5
     - quamash
     - pyqtgraph
     - pygit2