diff --git a/academic/scidavis/scidavis.SlackBuild b/academic/scidavis/scidavis.SlackBuild
index b82649a8e7..6ebdd91a51 100644
--- a/academic/scidavis/scidavis.SlackBuild
+++ b/academic/scidavis/scidavis.SlackBuild
@@ -90,13 +90,15 @@ find -L . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
   -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
+PYVER=$(python3 -c 'import sys; print("%d.%d" % sys.version_info[:2])')
+
 # Set the correct python paths - code based on scidavis.spec for Fedora by Alexander Ploumistos
-sed -i "s:set(PYTHON_SCRIPTDIR etc:set(PYTHON_SCRIPTDIR lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX/python3.9/site-packages/scidavis:" scidavis/CMakeLists.txt
+sed -i "s:set(PYTHON_SCRIPTDIR etc:set(PYTHON_SCRIPTDIR lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX/python$PYVER/site-packages/scidavis:" scidavis/CMakeLists.txt
 sed -i "s:FILES scidavisrc.py \${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/\$<CONFIG>/scidavisrc.pyc DESTINATION:FILES scidavisrc.py DESTINATION:" scidavis/CMakeLists.txt
 sed -i "s:FILES scidavisrc.py \${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/scidavisrc.pyc DESTINATION:FILES scidavisrc.py DESTINATION:" scidavis/CMakeLists.txt
 sed -i "s:FILES scidavisUtil.py DESTINATION share/scidavis:FILES scidavisUtil.py DESTINATION \${PYTHON_SCRIPTDIR}:" scidavis/CMakeLists.txt
-sed -i "s:PYTHON_CONFIG_PATH=\"\${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/etc\":PYTHON_CONFIG_PATH=\"/usr/lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX/python3.9/site-packages/scidavis\":" libscidavis/CMakeLists.txt
-sed -i "s:PYTHON_UTIL_PATH=\"\${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/scidavis\":PYTHON_UTIL_PATH=\"/usr/lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX/python3.9/site-packages/scidavis\":" libscidavis/CMakeLists.txt
+sed -i "s:PYTHON_CONFIG_PATH=\"\${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/etc\":PYTHON_CONFIG_PATH=\"/usr/lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX/python$PYVER/site-packages/scidavis\":" libscidavis/CMakeLists.txt
+sed -i "s:PYTHON_UTIL_PATH=\"\${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/scidavis\":PYTHON_UTIL_PATH=\"/usr/lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX/python$PYVER/site-packages/scidavis\":" libscidavis/CMakeLists.txt
 
 export PYTHON=python3