diff --git a/castor/tape/tapeserver/drive/CMakeLists.txt b/castor/tape/tapeserver/drive/CMakeLists.txt
index 3a2eee9df1c10b9fe27749f30411ef23edb81d06..59528cf7097b992299021a3dab193548118d63fc 100644
--- a/castor/tape/tapeserver/drive/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/castor/tape/tapeserver/drive/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,6 @@ target_link_libraries(TapeDriveReadWriteTest
   castorcommon
   castorclient
   castorTapeServerDaemon
-  ${GTEST_LIBRARY}
+  gtest
   gmock
   pthread)
diff --git a/cmake/FindGTest.cmake b/cmake/FindGTest.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index cec6ba54ec6e346c3d9f34b0720c4414166a8792..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/cmake/FindGTest.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,158 +0,0 @@
-# Locate the Google C++ Testing Framework.
-#
-# Defines the following variables:
-#
-#   GTEST_FOUND - Found the Google Testing framework
-#   GTEST_INCLUDE_DIRS - Include directories
-#
-# Also defines the library variables below as normal
-# variables.  These contain debug/optimized keywords when
-# a debugging library is found.
-#
-#   GTEST_BOTH_LIBRARIES - Both libgtest & libgtest-main
-#   GTEST_LIBRARIES - libgtest
-#   GTEST_MAIN_LIBRARIES - libgtest-main
-#
-# Accepts the following variables as input:
-#
-#   GTEST_ROOT - (as a CMake or environment variable)
-#                The root directory of the gtest install prefix
-#
-#   GTEST_MSVC_SEARCH - If compiling with MSVC, this variable can be set to
-#                       "MD" or "MT" to enable searching a GTest build tree
-#                       (defaults: "MD")
-#
-#-----------------------
-# Example Usage:
-#
-#    enable_testing()
-#    find_package(GTest REQUIRED)
-#    include_directories(${GTEST_INCLUDE_DIRS})
-#
-#    add_executable(foo foo.cc)
-#    target_link_libraries(foo ${GTEST_BOTH_LIBRARIES})
-#
-#    add_test(AllTestsInFoo foo)
-#
-#-----------------------
-#
-# If you would like each Google test to show up in CTest as
-# a test you may use the following macro.
-# NOTE: It will slow down your tests by running an executable
-# for each test and test fixture.  You will also have to rerun
-# CMake after adding or removing tests or test fixtures.
-#
-# GTEST_ADD_TESTS(executable extra_args ARGN)
-#    executable = The path to the test executable
-#    extra_args = Pass a list of extra arguments to be passed to
-#                 executable enclosed in quotes (or "" for none)
-#    ARGN =       A list of source files to search for tests & test
-#                 fixtures.
-#
-#  Example:
-#     set(FooTestArgs --foo 1 --bar 2)
-#     add_executable(FooTest FooUnitTest.cc)
-#     GTEST_ADD_TESTS(FooTest "${FooTestArgs}" FooUnitTest.cc)
-
-#=============================================================================
-# Copyright 2009 Kitware, Inc.
-# Copyright 2009 Philip Lowman <philip@yhbt.com>
-# Copyright 2009 Daniel Blezek <blezek@gmail.com>
-#
-# Distributed under the OSI-approved BSD License (the "License");
-# see accompanying file Copyright.txt for details.
-#
-# This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
-# implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-# See the License for more information.
-#=============================================================================
-# (To distribute this file outside of CMake, substitute the full
-#  License text for the above reference.)
-#
-# Thanks to Daniel Blezek <blezek@gmail.com> for the GTEST_ADD_TESTS code
-
-function(GTEST_ADD_TESTS executable extra_args)
-    if(NOT ARGN)
-        message(FATAL_ERROR "Missing ARGN: Read the documentation for GTEST_ADD_TESTS")
-    endif()
-    foreach(source ${ARGN})
-        file(READ "${source}" contents)
-        string(REGEX MATCHALL "TEST_?F?\\(([A-Za-z_0-9 ,]+)\\)" found_tests ${contents})
-        foreach(hit ${found_tests})
-            string(REGEX REPLACE ".*\\( *([A-Za-z_0-9]+), *([A-Za-z_0-9]+) *\\).*" "\\1.\\2" test_name ${hit})
-            add_test(${test_name} ${executable} --gtest_filter=${test_name} ${extra_args})
-        endforeach()
-    endforeach()
-endfunction()
-
-function(_gtest_append_debugs _endvar _library)
-    if(${_library} AND ${_library}_DEBUG)
-        set(_output optimized ${${_library}} debug ${${_library}_DEBUG})
-    else()
-        set(_output ${${_library}})
-    endif()
-    set(${_endvar} ${_output} PARENT_SCOPE)
-endfunction()
-
-function(_gtest_find_library _name)
-    find_library(${_name}
-        NAMES ${ARGN}
-        HINTS
-            ENV GTEST_ROOT
-            ${GTEST_ROOT}
-        PATH_SUFFIXES ${_gtest_libpath_suffixes}
-    )
-    mark_as_advanced(${_name})
-endfunction()
-
-#
-
-if(NOT DEFINED GTEST_MSVC_SEARCH)
-    set(GTEST_MSVC_SEARCH MD)
-endif()
-
-set(_gtest_libpath_suffixes lib)
-if(MSVC)
-    if(GTEST_MSVC_SEARCH STREQUAL "MD")
-        list(APPEND _gtest_libpath_suffixes
-            msvc/gtest-md/Debug
-            msvc/gtest-md/Release)
-    elseif(GTEST_MSVC_SEARCH STREQUAL "MT")
-        list(APPEND _gtest_libpath_suffixes
-            msvc/gtest/Debug
-            msvc/gtest/Release)
-    endif()
-endif()
-
-
-find_path(GTEST_INCLUDE_DIR gtest/gtest.h
-    HINTS
-        $ENV{GTEST_ROOT}/include
-        ${GTEST_ROOT}/include
-)
-mark_as_advanced(GTEST_INCLUDE_DIR)
-
-if(MSVC AND GTEST_MSVC_SEARCH STREQUAL "MD")
-    # The provided /MD project files for Google Test add -md suffixes to the
-    # library names.
-    _gtest_find_library(GTEST_LIBRARY            gtest-md  gtest)
-    _gtest_find_library(GTEST_LIBRARY_DEBUG      gtest-mdd gtestd)
-    _gtest_find_library(GTEST_MAIN_LIBRARY       gtest_main-md  gtest_main)
-    _gtest_find_library(GTEST_MAIN_LIBRARY_DEBUG gtest_main-mdd gtest_maind)
-else()
-    _gtest_find_library(GTEST_LIBRARY            gtest)
-    _gtest_find_library(GTEST_LIBRARY_DEBUG      gtestd)
-    _gtest_find_library(GTEST_MAIN_LIBRARY       gtest_main)
-    _gtest_find_library(GTEST_MAIN_LIBRARY_DEBUG gtest_maind)
-endif()
-
-INCLUDE(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
-FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS(GTest DEFAULT_MSG GTEST_LIBRARY GTEST_INCLUDE_DIR GTEST_MAIN_LIBRARY)
-
-if(GTEST_FOUND)
-    set(GTEST_INCLUDE_DIRS ${GTEST_INCLUDE_DIR})
-    _gtest_append_debugs(GTEST_LIBRARIES      GTEST_LIBRARY)
-    _gtest_append_debugs(GTEST_MAIN_LIBRARIES GTEST_MAIN_LIBRARY)
-    set(GTEST_BOTH_LIBRARIES ${GTEST_LIBRARIES} ${GTEST_MAIN_LIBRARIES})
-endif()
-
diff --git a/test/CMakeLists.txt b/test/CMakeLists.txt
index be827a2954dca0b3a3c7a3aca167e9daf8af76e5..86bd544a76953ce12d71ce7e58aa89e6629096df 100644
--- a/test/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ target_link_libraries(castorUnitTests
   castortapegatewayprotocol
   castorTapeServerDaemonTestDummies
   castorTapeServerDaemon
-  ${GTEST_LIBRARY}
+  gtest
   gmock
   pthread
   castorcommon
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ target_link_libraries(castorThreadedUnitTests
   castorvmgr
   castorrfio
   gmock
-  ${GTEST_LIBRARY}
+  gtest
   pthread
   TapeDrive
   SCSI
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ target_link_libraries(castorMultiprocessUnitTests
   System 
   Utils File 
   castorserver
-  ${GTEST_LIBRARY} gmock pthread castorcommon castorclient)
+  gtest gmock pthread castorcommon castorclient)
 
 install(TARGETS
   castorUnitTests