diff --git a/docs/developer/developer.adoc b/docs/developer/developer.adoc
index 77c6d5161a..4fd79cdd44 100644
--- a/docs/developer/developer.adoc
+++ b/docs/developer/developer.adoc
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ On Ubuntu 18.04 and potentially other distro, the python3 dist-packages path is
 If the following command:
 
 ----
-$ python3 -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib())"
+$ python3 -c "import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_path('purelib'))"
 ----
 
 returns "/usr/local/lib/python3/dist-packages" instead of a path like
diff --git a/swig/python3/CMakeLists.txt b/swig/python3/CMakeLists.txt
index 2594cf0008..a5f1d5bdc3 100644
--- a/swig/python3/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/swig/python3/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ add_custom_target(python3_compile ALL DEPENDS ${PYTHON_COMPILED_FILES})
 
 if(NOT PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES_INSTALL_DIR)
 execute_process(COMMAND
-	${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib(True, prefix='${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}'))"
+	${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -c "import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_path('purelib'))"
 	OUTPUT_VARIABLE PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES_INSTALL_DIR
 	OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
 )
diff --git a/utils/CMakeLists.txt b/utils/CMakeLists.txt
index 93ce1f2a9d..494f887820 100644
--- a/utils/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/utils/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -91,10 +91,11 @@ if(ENABLE_OSCAP_UTIL_DOCKER)
 
 	if(NOT PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES_INSTALL_DIR)
 	execute_process(COMMAND
-		${OSCAP_DOCKER_PYTHON} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib(False, False, prefix='${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}'))"
+		${OSCAP_DOCKER_PYTHON} -c "import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_path('purelib'))"
 		OUTPUT_VARIABLE PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES_INSTALL_DIR
 		OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
 	)
+	message("PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES_INSTALL_DIR: ${PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES_INSTALL_DIR}")
 	endif()
 
 	install(DIRECTORY oscap_docker_python