diff --git a/sugar-terminal.spec b/sugar-terminal.spec
index 145bf6e..29b2862 100644
--- a/sugar-terminal.spec
+++ b/sugar-terminal.spec
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ The terminal activity provides a vte-based terminal for the Sugar interface.
 
 %prep
 %autosetup -n Terminal-%{version}
+sed -i 's#/usr/bin/python#/usr/bin/python2#' setup.py
 
 # remove bogus pseudo.po
 rm -vf po/pseudo.po