diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -171,11 +171,6 @@ nbconvert==7.7.3
     webencodings==0.5.1
   traitlets==5.9.0
 orjson==3.10.3
-pastescript==3.6.0
-  paste==3.10.1
-    six==1.16.0
-  pastedeploy==3.1.0
-  six==1.16.0
 premailer==3.10.0
   cachetools==5.3.2
   cssselect==1.2.0
@@ -279,12 +274,6 @@ tzlocal==4.3
 unidecode==1.3.6
 urlobject==2.4.3
 waitress==3.0.0
-weberror==0.13.1
-  paste==3.10.1
-    six==1.16.0
-  pygments==2.15.1
-  tempita==0.5.2
-  webob==1.8.7
 webhelpers2==2.1
   markupsafe==2.1.2
   six==1.16.0
diff --git a/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/__init__.py b/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-
-# Copyright (C) 2010-2023 RhodeCode GmbH
-#
-# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3
-# (only), as published by the Free Software Foundation.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
-# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#
-# This program is dual-licensed. If you wish to learn more about the
-# RhodeCode Enterprise Edition, including its added features, Support services,
-# and proprietary license terms, please see https://rhodecode.com/licenses/
-import os
-import logging
-
-from paste.script.command import Command, BadCommand
-
-
-class BasePasterCommand(Command):
-    """
-    Abstract Base Class for paster commands.
-
-    The celery commands are somewhat aggressive about loading
-    celery.conf, and since our module sets the `CELERY_LOADER`
-    environment variable to our loader, we have to bootstrap a bit and
-    make sure we've had a chance to load the pylons config off of the
-    command line, otherwise everything fails.
-    """
-    min_args = 1
-    min_args_error = "Please provide a paster config file as an argument."
-    takes_config_file = 1
-    requires_config_file = True
-
-    def notify_msg(self, msg, log=False):
-        """Make a notification to user, additionally if logger is passed
-        it logs this action using given logger
-
-        :param msg: message that will be printed to user
-        :param log: logging instance, to use to additionally log this message
-
-        """
-        if log and isinstance(log, logging):
-            log(msg)
-
-    def run(self, args):
-        """
-        Overrides Command.run
-
-        Checks for a config file argument and loads it.
-        """
-        if len(args) < self.min_args:
-            raise BadCommand(
-                self.min_args_error % {'min_args': self.min_args,
-                                       'actual_args': len(args)})
-
-        # Decrement because we're going to lob off the first argument.
-        # @@ This is hacky
-        self.min_args -= 1
-        self.bootstrap_config(args[0])
-        self.update_parser()
-        return super(BasePasterCommand, self).run(args[1:])
-
-    def update_parser(self):
-        """
-        Abstract method.  Allows for the class' parser to be updated
-        before the superclass' `run` method is called.  Necessary to
-        allow options/arguments to be passed through to the underlying
-        celery command.
-        """
-        raise NotImplementedError("Abstract Method.")
-
-    def bootstrap_config(self, conf):
-        """
-        Loads the pylons configuration.
-        """
-        self.path_to_ini_file = os.path.realpath(conf)
-
-    def _init_session(self):
-        """
-        Inits SqlAlchemy Session
-        """
-        logging.config.fileConfig(self.path_to_ini_file)
-
diff --git a/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/deprecated/__init__.py b/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/deprecated/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
diff --git a/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/deprecated/celeryd.py b/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/deprecated/celeryd.py
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/deprecated/celeryd.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-
-
-# Copyright (C) 2013-2023 RhodeCode GmbH
-#
-# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3
-# (only), as published by the Free Software Foundation.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
-# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#
-# This program is dual-licensed. If you wish to learn more about the
-# RhodeCode Enterprise Edition, including its added features, Support services,
-# and proprietary license terms, please see https://rhodecode.com/licenses/
-
-
-from rhodecode.lib.paster_commands import BasePasterCommand
-
-
-class Command(BasePasterCommand):
-    """
-    Start the celery worker
-
-    Starts the celery worker that uses a paste.deploy configuration
-    file.
-    """
-    usage = 'CONFIG_FILE'
-    summary = __doc__.splitlines()[0]
-    description = "".join(__doc__.splitlines()[2:])
-
-    parser = BasePasterCommand.standard_parser(quiet=True)
-
-    def update_parser(self):
-        pass
-
-    def command(self):
-        cmd = 'celery worker --task-events --beat --app rhodecode.lib.celerylib.loader --loglevel DEBUG --ini=%s' % self.path_to_ini_file
-        raise Exception('This Command is deprecated please run: %s' % cmd)
-
diff --git a/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/deprecated/setup_rhodecode.py b/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/deprecated/setup_rhodecode.py
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/deprecated/setup_rhodecode.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-
-# Copyright (C) 2010-2023 RhodeCode GmbH
-#
-# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3
-# (only), as published by the Free Software Foundation.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
-# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#
-# This program is dual-licensed. If you wish to learn more about the
-# RhodeCode Enterprise Edition, including its added features, Support services,
-# and proprietary license terms, please see https://rhodecode.com/licenses/
-
-
-from rhodecode.lib.paster_commands import BasePasterCommand
-
-
-class Command(BasePasterCommand):
-    """
-    Start the celery worker
-
-    Starts the celery worker that uses a paste.deploy configuration
-    file.
-    """
-    usage = 'CONFIG_FILE [celeryd options...]'
-    summary = __doc__.splitlines()[0]
-    description = "".join(__doc__.splitlines()[2:])
-
-    parser = BasePasterCommand.standard_parser(quiet=True)
-
-    def update_parser(self):
-        pass
-
-    def command(self):
-        cmd = 'rc-setup-app %s' % self.path_to_ini_file
-        raise Exception('This Command is deprecated please run: %s' % cmd)
diff --git a/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/ishell.py b/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/ishell.py
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/ishell.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-
-
-# Copyright (C) 2013-2023 RhodeCode GmbH
-#
-# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3
-# (only), as published by the Free Software Foundation.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
-# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#
-# This program is dual-licensed. If you wish to learn more about the
-# RhodeCode Enterprise Edition, including its added features, Support services,
-# and proprietary license terms, please see https://rhodecode.com/licenses/
-
-"""
-interactive shell paster command for RhodeCode
-"""
-
-import os
-import sys
-import logging
-
-from rhodecode.lib.paster_commands import BasePasterCommand
-
-# fix rhodecode import
-from os.path import dirname as dn
-rc_path = dn(dn(dn(os.path.realpath(__file__))))
-sys.path.append(rc_path)
-
-log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-
-welcome_banner = """Welcome to RhodeCode iShell.
-Type `exit` to exit the shell.
-iShell is interactive shell to interact directly with the
-internal RhodeCode APIs. You can rescue your lost password,
-or reset some user/system settings.
-"""
-
-
-class Command(BasePasterCommand):
-
-    max_args = 1
-    min_args = 1
-
-    usage = "CONFIG_FILE"
-    group_name = "RhodeCode"
-    takes_config_file = -1
-    parser = BasePasterCommand.standard_parser(verbose=True)
-    summary = "Interactive shell"
-
-    def import_all_from_module(self, module_name):
-        import importlib
-        module = importlib.import_module(module_name)
-        globals().update({k: v for k, v in module.__dict__.items() if not k.startswith('_')})
-
-    def command(self):
-        # get SqlAlchemy session
-        self._init_session()
-
-        # imports, used in ipython shell
-        import os
-        import sys
-        import time
-        import shutil
-        import datetime
-        self.import_all_from_module('rhodecode.model.db')
-
-        try:
-            from IPython import embed
-            from traitlets.config import Config
-            cfg = Config()
-            cfg.InteractiveShellEmbed.confirm_exit = False
-            embed(config=cfg, banner1=welcome_banner)
-        except ImportError:
-            print('ipython installation required for ishell')
-            sys.exit(-1)
-
-    def update_parser(self):
-        pass
diff --git a/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/upgrade_db.py b/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/upgrade_db.py
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/rhodecode/lib/paster_commands/upgrade_db.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-
-# Copyright (C) 2010-2023 RhodeCode GmbH
-#
-# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3
-# (only), as published by the Free Software Foundation.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
-# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#
-# This program is dual-licensed. If you wish to learn more about the
-# RhodeCode Enterprise Edition, including its added features, Support services,
-# and proprietary license terms, please see https://rhodecode.com/licenses/
-
-import logging
-
-from rhodecode.lib.paster_commands import BasePasterCommand, Command
-
-log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-
-
-class UpgradeDb(BasePasterCommand):
-    """
-    Command used for paster to upgrade our database to newer version
-    """
-
-    max_args = 1
-    min_args = 1
-
-    usage = "CONFIG_FILE"
-    summary = "Upgrades current db to newer version"
-    group_name = "RhodeCode"
-
-    parser = Command.standard_parser(verbose=True)
-
-    def command(self):
-        from rhodecode.lib.rc_commands import upgrade_db
-        upgrade_db.command(
-            self.path_to_ini_file, self.options.__dict__.get('force_ask'), None)
-
-    def update_parser(self):
-        self.parser.add_option('--sql',
-                      action='store_true',
-                      dest='just_sql',
-                      help="Prints upgrade sql for further investigation",
-                      default=False)
-
-        self.parser.add_option('--force-yes',
-                           action='store_true',
-                           dest='force_ask',
-                           default=None,
-                           help='Force yes to every question')
-        self.parser.add_option('--force-no',
-                           action='store_false',
-                           dest='force_ask',
-                           default=None,
-                           help='Force no to every question')
-
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -176,18 +176,11 @@ setup(
             ('public/**', 'ignore', None),
         ]
     },
-    paster_plugins=['PasteScript'],
+
     entry_points={
         'paste.app_factory': [
             'main=rhodecode.config.middleware:make_pyramid_app',
         ],
-        'paste.global_paster_command': [
-            'ishell=rhodecode.lib.paster_commands.ishell:Command',
-            'upgrade-db=rhodecode.lib.paster_commands.upgrade_db:UpgradeDb',
-
-            'setup-rhodecode=rhodecode.lib.paster_commands.deprecated.setup_rhodecode:Command',
-            'celeryd=rhodecode.lib.paster_commands.deprecated.celeryd:Command',
-        ],
         'pyramid.pshell_runner': [
             'ipython = rhodecode.lib.pyramid_shell:ipython_shell_runner',
         ],