diff --git a/bleachbit.spec b/bleachbit.spec
index b196c1a..f788d59 100644
--- a/bleachbit.spec
+++ b/bleachbit.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           bleachbit
 Version:        2.0
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Release:        3%{?dist}
 Summary:        Python utility to free disk space and improve privacy
 License:        GPLv3+
 URL:            https://www.bleachbit.org/
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ sed -i '/Encoding/d' bleachbit.desktop
 # Drop env shebangs as files in %%_datadir usually don't need this.
 find bleachbit/ -type f -name '*.py' -exec sed -i '1{\@^#!/usr/bin/env python@d}' {} +
 
+# fix makefile to explicitly use python2
+sed -i 's/python/python2/g' Makefile
+
 %build
 make -C po local 
 %{__python2} setup.py build
@@ -72,6 +75,9 @@ appstream-util validate-relax --nonet %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/metainfo/%{name}.a
 %exclude %{_datadir}/%{name}/Windows.py*
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Jul 16 2018 Mukundan Ragavan <nonamedotc@fedoraproject.org> - 2.0-3
+- Fix python issues in makefile
+
 * Thu Jul 12 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.0-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild