diff --git a/puppet/zulip/manifests/postgres_common.pp b/puppet/zulip/manifests/postgres_common.pp
index 6f46f11f91..9a3b3e88d1 100644
--- a/puppet/zulip/manifests/postgres_common.pp
+++ b/puppet/zulip/manifests/postgres_common.pp
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ class zulip::postgres_common {
                         # tools for database monitoring
                         "ptop",
                         # Python modules used in our monitoring/worker threads
-                        # "python3-gevent", # missing on trusty
-                        "python-gevent",
                         "python3-tz", # TODO: use a virtualenv instead
                         "python-tz", # TODO: use a virtualenv instead
                         "python3-dateutil", # TODO: use a virtualenv instead
diff --git a/puppet/zulip_ops/manifests/postgres_common.pp b/puppet/zulip_ops/manifests/postgres_common.pp
index 1bb5f8beee..36f4df8319 100644
--- a/puppet/zulip_ops/manifests/postgres_common.pp
+++ b/puppet/zulip_ops/manifests/postgres_common.pp
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ class zulip_ops::postgres_common {
                                  "pv",
                                  "python3-pip",
                                  "python-pip",
+                                 # "python3-gevent", # missing on trusty
+                                 "python-gevent",
                                  # Postgres Nagios check plugin
                                  "check-postgres",
                                  ]