diff --git a/.ci/docker/requirements-ci.txt b/.ci/docker/requirements-ci.txt
index 7b069a5706c4..5c21ababddc6 100644
--- a/.ci/docker/requirements-ci.txt
+++ b/.ci/docker/requirements-ci.txt
@@ -363,10 +363,11 @@ pwlf==2.2.1
 
 
 # To build PyTorch itself
-astunparse
-PyYAML
+pyyaml
 pyzstd
 setuptools
+six
+wheel
 
 scons==4.5.2 ; platform_machine == "aarch64"
 
diff --git a/.ci/pytorch/macos-test.sh b/.ci/pytorch/macos-test.sh
index 57549a7d63e1..83f8e4e04331 100755
--- a/.ci/pytorch/macos-test.sh
+++ b/.ci/pytorch/macos-test.sh
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ torchbench_setup_macos() {
 }
 
 pip_benchmark_deps() {
-  python -mpip install --no-input astunparse requests cython scikit-learn
+  python -mpip install --no-input requests cython scikit-learn six
 }
 
 
diff --git a/benchmarks/dynamo/Makefile b/benchmarks/dynamo/Makefile
index c62773280bc2..c5a0a20aaa69 100644
--- a/benchmarks/dynamo/Makefile
+++ b/benchmarks/dynamo/Makefile
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ pull-deps: clone-deps
 	(cd ../../../torchbenchmark && git fetch && git checkout "$$(cat ../pytorch/.github/ci_commit_pins/torchbench.txt)" && git submodule update --init --recursive)
 
 build-deps: clone-deps
-	uv pip install astunparse numpy scipy ninja pyyaml mkl mkl-include setuptools cmake \
+	uv pip install numpy scipy ninja pyyaml six mkl mkl-include setuptools wheel cmake \
 		typing-extensions requests protobuf numba cython scikit-learn librosa
 	(cd ../../../torchvision && uv pip install -e . --no-build-isolation)
 	(cd ../../../torchdata && uv pip install -e .)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a2939483fc35..265470c6bb92 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ requires = [
     # 77.0.0: min version for SPDX expression support for project.license
     "setuptools>=62.3.0,<80.0",
     "wheel",
-    "astunparse",
     "cmake>=3.27",
     "ninja",
     "numpy",
     "packaging",
     "pyyaml",
     "requests",
+    "six",  # dependency chain: NNPACK -> PeachPy -> six
     "typing-extensions>=4.10.0",
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9bd9b5425814..7af83c0a8c39 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 # Python dependencies required for development
-astunparse
 build[uv]  # for building sdist and wheel
 cmake>=3.27
 expecttest>=0.3.0
@@ -18,6 +17,8 @@ pyyaml
 requests
 # setuptools develop deprecated on 80.0
 setuptools>=62.3.0,<80.0
+six  # dependency chain: NNPACK -> PeachPy -> six
 sympy>=1.13.3
 types-dataclasses
 typing-extensions>=4.13.2
+wheel
diff --git a/test/jit/test_ignore_context_manager.py b/test/jit/test_ignore_context_manager.py
index 59b27cba52a7..98fb3e7e21d2 100644
--- a/test/jit/test_ignore_context_manager.py
+++ b/test/jit/test_ignore_context_manager.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 import os
 import sys
-import unittest
 
 import torch
 
@@ -10,13 +9,11 @@ import torch
 # Make the helper files in test/ importable
 pytorch_test_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))
 sys.path.append(pytorch_test_dir)
-from torch.jit.frontend import _IS_ASTUNPARSE_INSTALLED
 from torch.testing._internal.common_utils import raise_on_run_directly
 from torch.testing._internal.jit_utils import JitTestCase
 
 
 class TestIgnoreContextManager(JitTestCase):
-    @unittest.skipUnless(_IS_ASTUNPARSE_INSTALLED, "astunparse package is required")
     def test_with_ignore_context_manager_with_inp_out(self):
         class A(torch.nn.Module):
             def forward(self):
@@ -68,7 +65,6 @@ class TestIgnoreContextManager(JitTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(s(), 6)
         self.assertEqual(s(), model())
 
-    @unittest.skipUnless(_IS_ASTUNPARSE_INSTALLED, "astunparse package is required")
     def test_with_ignore_context_manager_with_just_inp(self):
         class A(torch.nn.Module):
             def forward(self):
@@ -83,7 +79,6 @@ class TestIgnoreContextManager(JitTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(s(), 4)
         self.assertEqual(s(), model())
 
-    @unittest.skipUnless(_IS_ASTUNPARSE_INSTALLED, "astunparse package is required")
     def test_with_ignore_context_manager_with_just_out(self):
         class A(torch.nn.Module):
             def forward(self):
diff --git a/torch/jit/frontend.py b/torch/jit/frontend.py
index f6f4d99918fa..518eb7df2749 100644
--- a/torch/jit/frontend.py
+++ b/torch/jit/frontend.py
@@ -73,14 +73,6 @@ from torch.jit._dataclass_impls import DATACLASS_MAGIC_METHODS
 from torch.jit._monkeytype_config import get_qualified_name, monkeytype_trace
 
 
-_IS_ASTUNPARSE_INSTALLED = False
-try:
-    import astunparse  # type: ignore[import]
-
-    _IS_ASTUNPARSE_INSTALLED = True
-except ImportError:
-    pass
-
 # Borrowed from cPython implementation
 # https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/561612d8456cfab5672c9b445521113b847bd6b3/Lib/textwrap.py#L411#
 
@@ -591,7 +583,7 @@ def build_ignore_context_manager(ctx, stmt):
 from typing import List, Dict, Tuple
 
 @torch.jit.ignore
-{astunparse.unparse(ignore_function)}
+{ast.unparse(ignore_function)}
 """
     g = copy.copy(globals())
     exec(ignore_func_str, g)  # noqa: P204
@@ -846,11 +838,6 @@ class StmtBuilder(Builder):
         r = ctx.make_range(stmt.lineno, stmt.col_offset, stmt.col_offset + len("with"))
         # Handle ignore context manager
         if is_torch_jit_ignore_context_manager(stmt):
-            if not _IS_ASTUNPARSE_INSTALLED:
-                raise RuntimeError(
-                    "torch.jit._IgnoreContextManager requires installing Python library `astunparse`, \
-                                   please install it in your Python environment"
-                )
             assign_ast = build_ignore_context_manager(ctx, stmt)
             return build_stmt(ctx, assign_ast)
         return With(r, build_withitems(ctx, stmt.items), build_stmts(ctx, stmt.body))