diff --git a/scripts/dep_utils/parse.sh b/scripts/dep_utils/parse.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index e6519efa0..000000000
--- a/scripts/dep_utils/parse.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/bash
-
-set +u
-if [[ "$DEP" == "" ]]; then
-	DEP=$GOPATH/src/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/Gopkg.lock
-fi
-set -u
-
-
-set -euo pipefail
-
-LIB=$1
-
-grep -A100 "$LIB" "$DEP" | grep revision | head -n1 | grep -o '"[^"]\+"' | cut -d '"' -f 2
diff --git a/scripts/install_abci_apps.sh b/scripts/install_abci_apps.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index ee4b9dde4..000000000
--- a/scripts/install_abci_apps.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/bash
-
-# get the abci commit used by tendermint
-COMMIT=$(bash scripts/dep_utils/parse.sh abci)
-echo "Checking out vendored commit for abci: $COMMIT"
-
-go get -d github.com/tendermint/tendermint/abci
-cd "$GOPATH/src/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/abci" || exit
-git checkout "$COMMIT"
-make get_tools
-make get_vendor_deps
-make install
diff --git a/test/docker/Dockerfile b/test/docker/Dockerfile
index bc211ea43..70570e752 100644
--- a/test/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/test/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -21,14 +21,13 @@ ADD Makefile Makefile
 RUN make get_tools
 RUN make get_vendor_deps
 
-# Install the apps
-ADD scripts scripts
-RUN bash scripts/install_abci_apps.sh
-
 # Now copy in the code
 # NOTE: this will overwrite whatever is in vendor/
 COPY . $REPO
 
+# install ABCI CLI
+RUN cd abci && make install && cd -
+
 RUN go install ./cmd/tendermint
 
 # expose the volume for debugging