diff --git a/classify/predict.py b/classify/predict.py
index c1b6650d4bd0..9b64810d4d63 100644
--- a/classify/predict.py
+++ b/classify/predict.py
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ def parse_opt():
 
 
 def main(opt):
-    check_requirements(exclude=('tensorboard', 'thop'))
+    check_requirements(ROOT / 'requirements.txt', exclude=('tensorboard', 'thop'))
     run(**vars(opt))
 
 
diff --git a/classify/val.py b/classify/val.py
index 643489d64d36..4b92e9f105db 100644
--- a/classify/val.py
+++ b/classify/val.py
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ def parse_opt():
 
 
 def main(opt):
-    check_requirements(exclude=('tensorboard', 'thop'))
+    check_requirements(ROOT / 'requirements.txt', exclude=('tensorboard', 'thop'))
     run(**vars(opt))
 
 
diff --git a/data/Objects365.yaml b/data/Objects365.yaml
index bb2aa34cd4a4..990f5a56b39e 100644
--- a/data/Objects365.yaml
+++ b/data/Objects365.yaml
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ download: |
 
   from utils.general import Path, check_requirements, download, np, xyxy2xywhn
 
-  check_requirements(('pycocotools>=2.0',))
+  check_requirements('pycocotools>=2.0')
   from pycocotools.coco import COCO
 
   # Make Directories
diff --git a/detect.py b/detect.py
index 64d6f149a614..216c9dbd5880 100644
--- a/detect.py
+++ b/detect.py
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ def parse_opt():
 
 
 def main(opt):
-    check_requirements(exclude=('tensorboard', 'thop'))
+    check_requirements(ROOT / 'requirements.txt', exclude=('tensorboard', 'thop'))
     run(**vars(opt))
 
 
diff --git a/hubconf.py b/hubconf.py
index 73caf06685da..f0192698fbe3 100644
--- a/hubconf.py
+++ b/hubconf.py
@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ def _create(name, pretrained=True, channels=3, classes=80, autoshape=True, verbo
     from models.experimental import attempt_load
     from models.yolo import ClassificationModel, DetectionModel, SegmentationModel
     from utils.downloads import attempt_download
-    from utils.general import LOGGER, check_requirements, intersect_dicts, logging
+    from utils.general import LOGGER, ROOT, check_requirements, intersect_dicts, logging
     from utils.torch_utils import select_device
 
     if not verbose:
         LOGGER.setLevel(logging.WARNING)
-    check_requirements(exclude=('opencv-python', 'tensorboard', 'thop'))
+    check_requirements(ROOT / 'requirements.txt', exclude=('opencv-python', 'tensorboard', 'thop'))
     name = Path(name)
     path = name.with_suffix('.pt') if name.suffix == '' and not name.is_dir() else name  # checkpoint path
     try:
diff --git a/segment/predict.py b/segment/predict.py
index 4d4d6036358a..6a4d5eff3fc1 100644
--- a/segment/predict.py
+++ b/segment/predict.py
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ def parse_opt():
 
 
 def main(opt):
-    check_requirements(exclude=('tensorboard', 'thop'))
+    check_requirements(ROOT / 'requirements.txt', exclude=('tensorboard', 'thop'))
     run(**vars(opt))
 
 
diff --git a/segment/val.py b/segment/val.py
index c0575fd59a91..dc8081840e37 100644
--- a/segment/val.py
+++ b/segment/val.py
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ def parse_opt():
 
 
 def main(opt):
-    check_requirements(requirements=ROOT / 'requirements.txt', exclude=('tensorboard', 'thop'))
+    check_requirements(ROOT / 'requirements.txt', exclude=('tensorboard', 'thop'))
 
     if opt.task in ('train', 'val', 'test'):  # run normally
         if opt.conf_thres > 0.001:  # https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/issues/1466
diff --git a/val.py b/val.py
index 3d01f1a5996d..71268651d29b 100644
--- a/val.py
+++ b/val.py
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ def parse_opt():
 
 
 def main(opt):
-    check_requirements(exclude=('tensorboard', 'thop'))
+    check_requirements(ROOT / 'requirements.txt', exclude=('tensorboard', 'thop'))
 
     if opt.task in ('train', 'val', 'test'):  # run normally
         if opt.conf_thres > 0.001:  # https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/issues/1466