diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/paraview/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/paraview/package.py
index 888add30332..13cd076286f 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/paraview/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/paraview/package.py
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ class Paraview(Package):
     depends_on('libpng')
     depends_on('libtiff')
     depends_on('libxml2')
-    depends_on('netcdf')
+    #depends_on('netcdf')
+    #depends_on('netcdf-cxx')
     #depends_on('protobuf') # version mismatches?
     #depends_on('sqlite') # external version not supported
     depends_on('zlib')
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ def nfeature_to_bool(feature):
                 '-DVTK_USE_SYSTEM_HDF5:BOOL=ON',
                 '-DVTK_USE_SYSTEM_JPEG:BOOL=ON',
                 '-DVTK_USE_SYSTEM_LIBXML2:BOOL=ON',
-                '-DVTK_USE_SYSTEM_NETCDF:BOOL=ON',
+                '-DVTK_USE_SYSTEM_NETCDF:BOOL=OFF',
                 '-DVTK_USE_SYSTEM_TIFF:BOOL=ON',
                 '-DVTK_USE_SYSTEM_ZLIB:BOOL=ON',
                 *feature_args)