diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 32cc028942..dfb23d109a 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -119,5 +119,5 @@ configinc = include_directories('.')
 plugins_install_dir = '@0@/gstreamer-1.0'.format(get_option('libdir'))
 subdir('ext/libav/')
 
-python3 = find_program('python3')
+python3 = import('python3').find_python()
 run_command(python3, '-c', 'import shutil; shutil.copy("hooks/pre-commit.hook", ".git/hooks/pre-commit")')