diff --git a/contrib/apparmor/apparmor_test.go b/contrib/apparmor/apparmor_test.go
index a00b6119f..f3d79374d 100644
--- a/contrib/apparmor/apparmor_test.go
+++ b/contrib/apparmor/apparmor_test.go
@@ -22,92 +22,9 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 )
 
-type versionExpected struct {
-	output  string
-	version int
-}
-
-func TestParseVersion(t *testing.T) {
-	versions := []versionExpected{
-		{
-			output: `AppArmor parser version 2.10
-Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Novell Inc.
-Copyright 2009-2012 Canonical Ltd.
-`,
-			version: 210000,
-		},
-		{
-			output: `AppArmor parser version 2.8
-Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Novell Inc.
-Copyright 2009-2012 Canonical Ltd.
-`,
-			version: 208000,
-		},
-		{
-			output: `AppArmor parser version 2.20
-Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Novell Inc.
-Copyright 2009-2012 Canonical Ltd.
-`,
-			version: 220000,
-		},
-		{
-			output: `AppArmor parser version 2.05
-Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Novell Inc.
-Copyright 2009-2012 Canonical Ltd.
-`,
-			version: 205000,
-		},
-		{
-			output: `AppArmor parser version 2.9.95
-Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Novell Inc.
-Copyright 2009-2012 Canonical Ltd.
-`,
-			version: 209095,
-		},
-		{
-			output: `AppArmor parser version 3.14.159
-Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Novell Inc.
-Copyright 2009-2012 Canonical Ltd.
-`,
-			version: 314159,
-		},
-		{
-			output: `AppArmor parser version 3.0.0-beta1
-Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Novell Inc.
-Copyright 2009-2018 Canonical Ltd.
-`,
-			version: 300000,
-		},
-		{
-			output: `AppArmor parser version 3.0.0-beta1-foo-bar
-Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Novell Inc.
-Copyright 2009-2018 Canonical Ltd.
-`,
-			version: 300000,
-		},
-		{
-			output: `AppArmor parser version 2.7.0~rc2
-Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Novell Inc.
-Copyright 2009-2018 Canonical Ltd.
-`,
-			version: 207000,
-		},
-	}
-
-	for _, v := range versions {
-		version, err := parseVersion(v.output)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("expected error to be nil for %#v, got: %v", v, err)
-		}
-		if version != v.version {
-			t.Fatalf("expected version to be %d, was %d, for: %#v\n", v.version, version, v)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 func TestDumpDefaultProfile(t *testing.T) {
-	if _, err := getVersion(); err != nil {
-		t.Skipf("AppArmor not available: %+v", err)
+	if _, err := aaParser("--version"); err != nil {
+		t.Skipf("apparmor_parser not available: %+v", err)
 	}
 	name := "test-dump-default-profile"
 	prof, err := DumpDefaultProfile(name)
diff --git a/contrib/apparmor/template.go b/contrib/apparmor/template.go
index 63e50d299..20ac3c9bf 100644
--- a/contrib/apparmor/template.go
+++ b/contrib/apparmor/template.go
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"path"
-	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"text/template"
 
@@ -91,7 +90,6 @@ type data struct {
 	Imports       []string
 	InnerImports  []string
 	DaemonProfile string
-	Version       int
 }
 
 func cleanProfileName(profile string) string {
@@ -117,11 +115,6 @@ func loadData(name string) (*data, error) {
 	if macroExists("abstractions/base") {
 		p.InnerImports = append(p.InnerImports, "#include <abstractions/base>")
 	}
-	ver, err := getVersion()
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("get apparmor_parser version: %w", err)
-	}
-	p.Version = ver
 
 	// Figure out the daemon profile.
 	currentProfile, err := os.ReadFile("/proc/self/attr/current")
@@ -162,65 +155,6 @@ func aaParser(args ...string) (string, error) {
 	return string(out), err
 }
 
-func getVersion() (int, error) {
-	out, err := aaParser("--version")
-	if err != nil {
-		return -1, err
-	}
-	return parseVersion(out)
-}
-
-// parseVersion takes the output from `apparmor_parser --version` and returns
-// a representation of the {major, minor, patch} version as a single number of
-// the form MMmmPPP {major, minor, patch}.
-func parseVersion(output string) (int, error) {
-	// output is in the form of the following:
-	// AppArmor parser version 2.9.1
-	// Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Novell Inc.
-	// Copyright 2009-2012 Canonical Ltd.
-
-	version, _, _ := strings.Cut(output, "\n")
-	if i := strings.LastIndex(version, " "); i >= 0 {
-		version = version[i+1:]
-	}
-
-	// trim "-beta1" suffix from version="3.0.0-beta1" if exists
-	version, _, _ = strings.Cut(version, "-")
-	// also trim tilde
-	version, _, _ = strings.Cut(version, "~")
-
-	// split by major minor version
-	v := strings.SplitN(version, ".", 4)
-	if len(v) == 0 || len(v) > 3 {
-		return -1, fmt.Errorf("parsing version failed for output: `%s`", output)
-	}
-
-	// Default the versions to 0.
-	var majorVersion, minorVersion, patchLevel int
-
-	majorVersion, err := strconv.Atoi(v[0])
-	if err != nil {
-		return -1, err
-	}
-
-	if len(v) > 1 {
-		minorVersion, err = strconv.Atoi(v[1])
-		if err != nil {
-			return -1, err
-		}
-	}
-	if len(v) > 2 {
-		patchLevel, err = strconv.Atoi(v[2])
-		if err != nil {
-			return -1, err
-		}
-	}
-
-	// major*10^5 + minor*10^3 + patch*10^0
-	numericVersion := majorVersion*1e5 + minorVersion*1e3 + patchLevel
-	return numericVersion, nil
-}
-
 func isLoaded(name string) (bool, error) {
 	f, err := os.Open("/sys/kernel/security/apparmor/profiles")
 	if err != nil {