diff --git a/ceph.spec.in b/ceph.spec.in
index 59d539ce381..eda6893b456 100644
--- a/ceph.spec.in
+++ b/ceph.spec.in
@@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ Base is the package that includes all the files shared amongst ceph servers
 Summary:        Utility to bootstrap Ceph clusters
 Requires:       podman
 Requires:       lvm2
+Requires:       python%{python3_pkgversion}
 %description -n cephadm
 Utility to bootstrap a Ceph cluster and manage Ceph daemons deployed 
 with systemd and podman.
diff --git a/src/cephadm/cephadm b/src/cephadm/cephadm
index 526f9a0cefe..4085e89dcdc 100755
--- a/src/cephadm/cephadm
+++ b/src/cephadm/cephadm
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/python3
 
 DEFAULT_IMAGE='ceph/daemon-base:latest-master-devel'  # FIXME when octopus is ready!!!
 DATA_DIR='/var/lib/ceph'