diff --git a/pythonPackages/qpid/bin/qpid-queue-count b/pythonPackages/qpid/bin/qpid-queue-count
index 5a5eda16bb..1e1ca607a5 100755
--- a/pythonPackages/qpid/bin/qpid-queue-count
+++ b/pythonPackages/qpid/bin/qpid-queue-count
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ import socket
 import re
 import httplib
 import json
-from qmf.console import Session, Console
 from qpid.disp import Display, Header, Sorter
 
 _host = "localhost"
@@ -55,7 +54,7 @@ def Usage ():
     print
     sys.exit (1)
 
-class RestManager(Console):
+class RestManager():
     def __init__(self):
         self._host = None
         self._port = 0
diff --git a/pythonPackages/qpid/bin/qpid-stat b/pythonPackages/qpid/bin/qpid-stat
index 0c9036e2da..89988d2183 100755
--- a/pythonPackages/qpid/bin/qpid-stat
+++ b/pythonPackages/qpid/bin/qpid-stat
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ import httplib
 import json
 import time
 from datetime import datetime
-from qmf.console import Session, Console
 from qpid.disp import Display, Header, Sorter
 
 _host = "localhost"
@@ -64,7 +63,7 @@ def Usage ():
     print
     sys.exit (1)
 
-class DisplayManager(Console):
+class DisplayManager():
 
     def displayBroker(self, jsonObjArray):
         disp = Display(prefix="  ")
@@ -230,7 +229,7 @@ class DisplayManager(Console):
         elif main == 'e': self.displayExchange(jsonObject)
         elif main == 'q': self.displayQueue(jsonObject)
 
-class RestManager(Console):
+class RestManager():
     def __init__(self):
         self._host = None
         self._port = 0
diff --git a/pythonPackages/qpid/qpid-0.6.tar.gz.REMOVED.git-id b/pythonPackages/qpid/qpid-0.6.tar.gz.REMOVED.git-id
deleted file mode 100644
index 477bcb4f3e..0000000000
--- a/pythonPackages/qpid/qpid-0.6.tar.gz.REMOVED.git-id
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-fdfb946cb0e7f986e186f169f458331de255fde9
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pythonPackages/qpid/qpid-python-0.18.tar.gz b/pythonPackages/qpid/qpid-python-0.18.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cde6ef3d44
Binary files /dev/null and b/pythonPackages/qpid/qpid-python-0.18.tar.gz differ
diff --git a/rpms/python.site-packages/Installer.qpid/component.spec b/rpms/python.site-packages/Installer.qpid/component.spec
index bb58a9a066..9715fe3003 100644
--- a/rpms/python.site-packages/Installer.qpid/component.spec
+++ b/rpms/python.site-packages/Installer.qpid/component.spec
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@
 #
 Name: awips2-python-qpid
 Summary: AWIPS II Python qpid Distribution
-Version: 0.6
-Release: 7
+Version: 0.18
+Release: 1
+BuildArch: noarch
 Group: AWIPSII
 BuildRoot: %{_build_root}
 BuildArch: %{_build_arch}
@@ -40,12 +41,11 @@ mkdir -p %{_build_root}/build-python
 
 %build
 QPID_SRC_DIR="%{_python_pkgs_dir}/qpid"
-QPID_TAR="qpid-0.6.tar.gz"
+QPID_TAR="qpid-python-0.18.tar.gz"
 
 cp -rv ${QPID_SRC_DIR}/${QPID_TAR} \
    %{_build_root}/build-python
-RC=$?
-if [ ${RC} -ne 0 ]; then
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    exit 1
 fi
       
@@ -57,8 +57,7 @@ popd > /dev/null
 
 %install
 QPID_SRC_DIR="%{_python_pkgs_dir}/qpid"
-QPID_SRC="qpid-0.6/python"
-QPID_SPECS="qpid-0.6/specs"
+QPID_SRC="qpid-0.18/python"
 QPID_STAT_SCRIPT="qpid-stat"
 QPID_QUEUE_COUNT_SCRIPT="qpid-queue-count"
 QPID_MONITOR_SCRIPT="monitor_qpid_host.sh"
@@ -66,11 +65,14 @@ QPID_MONITOR_SCRIPT="monitor_qpid_host.sh"
 pushd . > /dev/null
 cd %{_build_root}/build-python/${QPID_SRC}
 mkdir -p %{_build_root}/awips2/python
-export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/awips2/python/lib
-export PATH=/awips2/python/bin:${PATH}
-make install PREFIX=%{_build_root}/awips2/python
-RC=$?
-if [ ${RC} -ne 0 ]; then
+/awips2/python/bin/python setup.py build
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+   exit 1
+fi
+/awips2/python/bin/python setup.py install \
+   --root=%{_build_root} \
+   --prefix=/awips2/python
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    exit 1
 fi
 popd > /dev/null
@@ -78,35 +80,29 @@ popd > /dev/null
 # Copy the stats script to bin
 cp -v ${QPID_SRC_DIR}/bin/${QPID_STAT_SCRIPT} \
    %{_build_root}/awips2/python/bin
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+   exit 1
+fi
    
 # Copy the queue-counting script to bin
 cp -v ${QPID_SRC_DIR}/bin/${QPID_QUEUE_COUNT_SCRIPT} \
    %{_build_root}/awips2/python/bin
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+   exit 1
+fi
    
 # Copy the monitoring script to bin
 cp -v ${QPID_SRC_DIR}/bin/${QPID_MONITOR_SCRIPT} \
    %{_build_root}/awips2/python/bin
-   
-# Copy the amqp dtd/xml data to share
-mkdir -p %{_build_root}/awips2/python/share/amqp
-cp -prv %{_build_root}/build-python/${QPID_SPECS}/* \
-   %{_build_root}/awips2/python/share/amqp
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+   exit 1
+fi
    
 rm -rf %{_build_root}/build-python
 
 %pre
 
 %post
-# get the path to the awips2-python that is installed
-PYDIR="/awips2/python"
-
-# get the python version so we can fix the amqp xml/dtd
-PYTHON_VERSION=$( LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${PYDIR}/lib ${PYDIR}/bin/python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_version; print get_python_version()" )
-# the file /awips2/python/lib/python$PYTHON_VERSION/site-packages/qpid_config.py is wrong
-# this substitution will put the correct path in the file qpid_config.py
-# otherwise it will generate AMQP errors when run, it won't find the directory
-sed -i "s|^AMQP_SPEC_DIR=.*/share/amqp\"|AMQP_SPEC_DIR=\"${PYDIR}/share/amqp\"|g" \
-${PYDIR}/lib/python${PYTHON_VERSION}/site-packages/qpid_config.py
 
 %preun
 
@@ -119,8 +115,6 @@ rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
 %defattr(644,awips,fxalpha,755)
 %dir /awips2/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages
 /awips2/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/*
-%dir /awips2/python/share
-/awips2/python/share/*
 %defattr(755,awips,fxalpha,755)
 %dir /awips2/python/bin
 /awips2/python/bin/*