diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d10cfd82..c92dbf47 100755
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,13 +2,11 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
 # The MLIR-AIE and LLVM-AIE (Peano) packages are not on the official PyPI, so
-# we add them as additional indices here. Furthermore, we want the CPU-only
-# version of torch (don't need CUDA), so we give this index precedence over the
-# main PyPI. These indices are consulted in order of precedence by pip.
---index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
---extra-index-url https://github.com/Xilinx/mlir-aie/releases/expanded_assets/latest-wheels-3
---extra-index-url https://github.com/Xilinx/llvm-aie/releases/expanded_assets/nightly
---extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple
+# we reference their GitHub Releases via --find-links. The CPU-only PyTorch
+# index is added as an extra index for the torch package.
+--extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
+--find-links https://github.com/Xilinx/mlir-aie/releases/expanded_assets/latest-wheels-3
+--find-links https://github.com/Xilinx/llvm-aie/releases/expanded_assets/nightly
 
 mlir_aie==0.0.1.2026033104+e4f35d6
 llvm-aie