diff --git a/libxml.spec.in b/libxml.spec.in
index f96575c..27d9752 100644
--- a/libxml.spec.in
+++ b/libxml.spec.in
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 Summary: Python bindings for the libxml2 library
 Group: Development/Libraries
 Requires: libxml2 = %{version}
-Requires: python = %(echo `python -c "import sys; print sys.version[0:3]"`)
+Requires: %{_libdir}/python%(echo `python -c "import sys; print sys.version[0:3]"`)
 
 %description python
 The libxml2-python package contains a module that permits applications