diff --git a/release/tools/gce.conf b/release/tools/gce.conf
--- a/release/tools/gce.conf
+++ b/release/tools/gce.conf
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@
 # Set to a list of packages to install.
 export VM_EXTRA_PACKAGES="${VM_EXTRA_PACKAGES} firstboot-freebsd-update \
 	firstboot-pkgs \ google-cloud-sdk panicmail sudo \
-	sysutils/py-google-compute-engine lang/python lang/python2 \
-	lang/python3"
+	sysutils/py-google-compute-engine lang/python lang/python3"
 
 # Set to a list of third-party software to enable in rc.conf(5).
 export VM_RC_LIST="ntpd sshd growfs \