diff --git a/meta/classes/pip_install_wheel.bbclass b/meta/classes/pip_install_wheel.bbclass
index 954a6b750f..5d09e795d0 100644
--- a/meta/classes/pip_install_wheel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/pip_install_wheel.bbclass
@@ -1,20 +1,10 @@
 DEPENDS:append = " python3-pip-native"
 
-def guess_pip_install_package_name(d):
-    import re
-    '''https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0491/#escaping-and-unicode'''
-    name = d.getVar('PYPI_PACKAGE') or re.sub(r"^python3-", "", d.getVar('BPN'))
-    return name.replace('-', '_')
-
-PIP_INSTALL_PACKAGE ?= "${@guess_pip_install_package_name(d)}"
-
 # The directory where wheels should be written too. Build classes
 # will ideally [cleandirs] this but we don't do that here in case
 # a recipe wants to install prebuilt wheels.
 PIP_INSTALL_DIST_PATH ?= "${WORKDIR}/dist"
 
-PYPA_WHEEL ??= "${PIP_INSTALL_DIST_PATH}/${PIP_INSTALL_PACKAGE}-*-*.whl"
-
 PIP_INSTALL_ARGS = "\
     -vvvv \
     --ignore-installed \
@@ -29,7 +19,9 @@ PIP_INSTALL_PYTHON = "python3"
 PIP_INSTALL_PYTHON:class-native = "nativepython3"
 
 pip_install_wheel_do_install () {
-    nativepython3 -m pip install ${PIP_INSTALL_ARGS} ${PYPA_WHEEL} ||
+    test -f ${PIP_INSTALL_DIST_PATH}/*.whl || bbfatal No wheels in ${PIP_INSTALL_DIST_PATH}
+
+    nativepython3 -m pip install ${PIP_INSTALL_ARGS} ${PIP_INSTALL_DIST_PATH}/*.whl ||
       bbfatal_log "Failed to pip install wheel. Check the logs."
 
     cd ${D}