diff --git a/ceph.spec.in b/ceph.spec.in
index 49d4f58d992..347daa5c519 100644
--- a/ceph.spec.in
+++ b/ceph.spec.in
@@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ Summary:	Ceph fuse-based client
 Group:		System/Filesystems
 %endif
 Requires:       fuse
+Requires:	python%{python3_pkgversion}
 %description fuse
 FUSE based client for Ceph distributed network file system
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 48ce3528cd8..347a41d6898 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ Package: ceph-fuse
 Architecture: linux-any
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          ${shlibs:Depends},
+         ${python3:Depends},
          fuse,
 Description: FUSE-based client for the Ceph distributed file system
  Ceph is a massively scalable, open-source, distributed
diff --git a/src/mount.fuse.ceph b/src/mount.fuse.ceph
index 87349a0ab08..c61625a8c2f 100755
--- a/src/mount.fuse.ceph
+++ b/src/mount.fuse.ceph
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/python3
 '''
 Helper to mount ceph-fuse from /etc/fstab.  To use, add an entry
 like: