diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 0615005e..57d1b6d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -71,12 +71,6 @@ jobs:
             unpaper \
             zlib1g
 
-      - name: Install Ubuntu 18.04 packages
-        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-18.04'
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            libexempi3
-
       - name: Install Ubuntu 20.04 packages
         if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-20.04' || matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
         run: |
diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst
index a352ac6b..07c25abd 100644
--- a/docs/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/installation.rst
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ install, or install a more recent version than your platform provides, read on.
 Installing on Linux
 ===================
 
-Debian and Ubuntu 18.04 or newer
+Debian and Ubuntu 20.04 or newer
 --------------------------------
 
 .. |deb-11| image:: https://repology.org/badge/version-for-repo/debian_11/ocrmypdf.svg
@@ -56,9 +56,6 @@ Debian and Ubuntu 18.04 or newer
 .. |deb-unstable| image:: https://repology.org/badge/version-for-repo/debian_unstable/ocrmypdf.svg
     :alt: Debian unstable
 
-.. |ubu-1804| image:: https://repology.org/badge/version-for-repo/ubuntu_18_04/ocrmypdf.svg
-    :alt: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
-
 .. |ubu-2004| image:: https://repology.org/badge/version-for-repo/ubuntu_20_04/ocrmypdf.svg
     :alt: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
 
@@ -72,7 +69,7 @@ Debian and Ubuntu 18.04 or newer
 +-----------------------------------------------+
 | |deb-11| |deb-12| |deb-unstable|              |
 +-----------------------------------------------+
-| |ubu-1804| |ubu-2004| |ubu-2204|              |
+| |ubu-2004| |ubu-2204|                         |
 +-----------------------------------------------+
 
 Users of Debian 9 ("stretch") or later, or Ubuntu 18.04 or later, including users
@@ -80,7 +77,7 @@ of Windows Subsystem for Linux, may simply
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-    apt-get install ocrmypdf
+    apt install ocrmypdf
 
 As indicated in the table above, Debian and Ubuntu releases may lag
 behind the latest version. If the version available for your platform is
@@ -198,46 +195,6 @@ To install for the current user only:
 
 To add JBIG2 encoding, see :ref:`jbig2`.
 
-Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
-----------------
-
-Ubuntu 18.04 includes ocrmypdf 6.1.2 - you can install that with ``apt``, but
-it is quite old now. To install a more recent version, uninstall the old version
-of ocrmypdf, and install the following dependencies:
-
-.. code-block:: bash
-
-    sudo apt-get -y remove ocrmypdf
-    sudo apt-get -y update
-    sudo apt-get -y install \
-        ghostscript \
-        icc-profiles-free \
-        libxml2 \
-        pngquant \
-        python3-distutils \
-        python3-pkg-resources \
-        python3-reportlab \
-        qpdf \
-        tesseract-ocr \
-        zlib1g \
-        unpaper
-
-We will need a newer version of ``pip`` then was available for Ubuntu 18.04:
-
-.. code-block:: bash
-
-    wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py && python3 get-pip.py
-
-Then install the most recent ocrmypdf for the local user and set the
-user's ``PATH`` to check for the user's Python packages.
-
-.. code-block:: bash
-
-    export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH
-    python3 -m pip install --user ocrmypdf
-
-To add JBIG2 encoding, see :ref:`jbig2`.
-
 Arch Linux (AUR)
 ----------------