diff --git a/dialogflow_task_executive/CMakeLists.txt b/dialogflow_task_executive/CMakeLists.txt
index 732d18053..f645d8c10 100644
--- a/dialogflow_task_executive/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/dialogflow_task_executive/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,13 +1,6 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.3)
 project(dialogflow_task_executive)
 
-if($ENV{ROS_DISTRO} STREQUAL "indigo")
-  message(WARNING "following requirements.txt syntax is not support on 14.04")
-  message(WARNING "google-api-core[grpc]==1.31.5  # via google-cloud-language")
-  find_package(catkin)
-  catkin_package()
-  return()
-endif()
 execute_process(COMMAND bash -c "gcc -dumpmachine" OUTPUT_VARIABLE gcc_dump_machine OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
 message("-- gcc dumpmachine returns ${gcc_dump_machine}")
 if(NOT gcc_dump_machine MATCHES "x86_64-.*")
@@ -42,7 +35,19 @@ catkin_package(
   CATKIN_DEPENDS message_runtime
 )
 
-catkin_generate_virtualenv(INPUT_REQUIREMENTS requirements.in)
+if("$ENV{ROS_DISTRO}" STREQUAL "indigo")
+  message(WARNING "following requirements.txt syntax is not support on 14.04")
+  message(WARNING "google-api-core[grpc]==1.31.5  # via google-cloud-language")
+  message(WARNING "so we intentionally use requirements.txt")
+  message(WARNING "To use this program, we need to run")
+  message(WARNING "sed -i 's/upgrade_pip=True/upgrade_pip=False/' /opt/ros/indigo/share/catkin_virtualenv/cmake/build_venv.py")
+  message(WARNING "to prevent upgrading to latest pip, which is not Python2 compatible")
+  file(COPY requirements.txt.indigo DESTINATION ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
+  file(RENAME ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/requirements.txt.indigo requirements.txt)
+  catkin_generate_virtualenv()
+else()
+  catkin_generate_virtualenv(INPUT_REQUIREMENTS requirements.in)
+endif()
 
 file(GLOB NODE_SCRIPTS_FILES node_scripts/*.py)
 catkin_install_python(
diff --git a/dialogflow_task_executive/requirements.txt.indigo b/dialogflow_task_executive/requirements.txt.indigo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b584b1f1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dialogflow_task_executive/requirements.txt.indigo
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+####
+#### this is only sed for indigo (pr2)
+####
+#### kinetic+ users will use requirements.in
+####
+pyparsing==2.2.0
+#
+dialogflow==0.3.0
+#
+cachetools==0.2.0
+certifi==2017.7.27.1
+chardet==3.0.4
+futures==3.2.0
+google-api-core==1.12.0
+google-auth==1.6.3
+google-auth-httplib2==0.0.3
+googleapis-common-protos==1.6.0
+httplib2==0.14.0
+idna==2.6
+protobuf==3.12.2
+pyasn1==0.4.3
+pyasn1-modules
+pytz==2017.2
+requests==2.18.4
+rsa==3.4.2
+setuptools==40.3.0
+six==1.11.0
+urllib3==1.22
+