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@@ -112,14 +112,6 @@ pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
 pip install spacy
 ```
 
-For installation on python 3.5 where binary wheels are not provided for the most
-recent versions of the dependencies, you can prefer older binary wheels over
-newer source packages with `--prefer-binary`:
-
-```bash
-pip install spacy --prefer-binary
-```
-
 To install additional data tables for lemmatization and normalization in
 **spaCy v2.2+** you can run `pip install spacy[lookups]` or install
 [`spacy-lookups-data`](https://github.com/explosion/spacy-lookups-data)