diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 592293e0e325341d129b7d41abef0b8305450dc1..e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "cmake"]
-	path = cmake
-	url = https://github.com/lguez/cmake
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index b066ae80cc66694243c00fa56743141d2a71b93b..e6e86567bc9a5a18a516c54a0eafea854f7e274b 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.20...3.27)
 project(Detection_eddies LANGUAGES Fortran)
 set_property(CACHE CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE PROPERTY STRINGS Debug Release Profile
   RelWithDebInfo)
-list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/cmake")
+include(FetchContent)
+FetchContent_Declare(LG_cmake_utils GIT_REPOSITORY
+  https://gitlab.in2p3.fr/guez/cmake.git GIT_TAG 517d97c3)
+FetchContent_MakeAvailable(LG_cmake_utils)
+list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${lg_cmake_utils_SOURCE_DIR}")
 find_package(NetCDF_Fortran REQUIRED)
 find_package(MPI)
 
diff --git a/cmake b/cmake
deleted file mode 160000
index c49b86c38a01ab90b665f41d0cc606f499157eae..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit c49b86c38a01ab90b665f41d0cc606f499157eae