diff --git a/requirements_torch_training.txt b/requirements_torch_training.txt
index 03f63837b289808620da54561c631649b1d88d55..4e57ca718b33da4e39ce065af1f7108eb1419763 100644
--- a/requirements_torch_training.txt
+++ b/requirements_torch_training.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-git+https://gitlab.aicrowd.com/flatland/flatland.git@master
+# setup.py is not able to handle git+https, therefore install flatland manually
+# git+https://gitlab.aicrowd.com/flatland/flatland.git@master
 torch>=1.1.0
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