diff --git a/scripts/robot_pose_publisher b/scripts/robot_pose_publisher
index 855a8e670daad6dc6cf7cf168716cb98562b8289..fc34c316a4e4957c6fe0e07274f428a2f848f5e1 100755
--- a/scripts/robot_pose_publisher
+++ b/scripts/robot_pose_publisher
@@ -3,12 +3,9 @@
 # Listens to TransformStamped messages and publish them to tf
 #
 
-import roslib
-roslib.load_manifest('dynamic_graph_bridge')
 import rospy
 
 import tf
-#import geometry_msgs.msg
 import sensor_msgs.msg
 
 frame = ''
diff --git a/scripts/run_command b/scripts/run_command
index c414e0415d33d7c3228a027a6078c3413bd1cae1..49e78775116960f5d92709509f0d642564705c8a 100755
--- a/scripts/run_command
+++ b/scripts/run_command
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
-#import roslib; roslib.load_manifest('dynamic_graph_bridge')
 import rospy
 
 import dynamic_graph_bridge_msgs.srv
@@ -71,12 +70,10 @@ class RosShell(InteractiveConsole):
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     import optparse
     import os.path
-    manifest = roslib.manifest.load_manifest('dynamic_graph_bridge')
     rospy.init_node('run_command', argv=sys.argv)
     sys.argv = rospy.myargv(argv=None)
     parser = optparse.OptionParser(
-        usage='\n\t%prog [options]',
-        version='%%prog %s' % manifest.version)
+        usage='\n\t%prog [options]')
     (options, args) = parser.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])
 
     sh = RosShell()
diff --git a/scripts/tf_publisher b/scripts/tf_publisher
index bd2d6ee2b0c2adbb1b66f15561de45d7f1fee410..2dd388bdfdba2dae08c85adaef444358cb633bdc 100755
--- a/scripts/tf_publisher
+++ b/scripts/tf_publisher
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@
 # through dynamic_graph_bridge.
 #
 
-import roslib
-roslib.load_manifest('dynamic_graph_bridge')
 import rospy
 
 import tf