diff --git a/ci/test/00_setup_env_native_qt5.sh b/ci/test/00_setup_env_native_qt5.sh
index 0151cf4e8a1f03..ee088fc91535c9 100755
--- a/ci/test/00_setup_env_native_qt5.sh
+++ b/ci/test/00_setup_env_native_qt5.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 
 export CONTAINER_NAME=ci_native_qt5
-export HOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
 export PACKAGES="python3-zmq qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libdbus-1-dev libharfbuzz-dev"
 export DEP_OPTS=""
 export TEST_RUNNER_EXTRA="--previous-releases --coverage --extended --exclude feature_pruning,feature_dbcrash"  # Run extended tests so that coverage does not fail, but exclude the very slow dbcrash