diff --git a/userspace/compile-modemmanager.sh b/userspace/compile-modemmanager.sh
index dde32a1..c6c0e6c 100755
--- a/userspace/compile-modemmanager.sh
+++ b/userspace/compile-modemmanager.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ make install
 
 # build libqmi
 cd /tmp
-apt install -y --no-install-recommends libgudev-1.0-dev gobject-introspection libgirepository1.0-dev help2man bash-completion
+apt install -y --no-install-recommends libgudev-1.0-dev gobject-introspection libgirepository1.0-dev help2man bash-completion python-is-python3
 
 git clone -b $LIBQMI_VERSION --depth 1 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/libqmi.git
 cd libqmi