diff -up ./src/fwfetcher.py.py3 ./src/fwfetcher.py
--- ./src/fwfetcher.py.py3	2023-04-03 17:59:43.000000000 -0400
+++ ./src/fwfetcher.py	2023-07-13 21:54:27.641914564 -0400
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python2
-
 from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 
 import hashlib
@@ -10,10 +8,10 @@ import sys
 import time
 import zipfile
 
-try:
+if sys.version_info[0] > 2:
     # Python 3
     from urllib.request import Request, URLError, urlopen
-except ImportError:
+else:
     # Python 2
     from urllib2 import Request, URLError, urlopen
 
diff -up ./wrappers/python/CMakeLists.txt.py3 ./wrappers/python/CMakeLists.txt
--- ./wrappers/python/CMakeLists.txt.py3	2023-04-03 17:59:43.000000000 -0400
+++ ./wrappers/python/CMakeLists.txt	2023-07-13 21:56:32.387653639 -0400
@@ -19,10 +19,7 @@ find_program(CYTHON_EXECUTABLE cython)
 
 # Figure out installation path
 # CMake populates this var automatically but we need to specify prefix
-execute_process(COMMAND
-  ${Python${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_EXECUTABLE}
-    -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib(plat_specific=False, standard_lib=False, prefix='${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}'))"
-  OUTPUT_VARIABLE Python${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_SITELIB OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+set(Python${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_SITELIB "${Python${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_SITEARCH}")
 
 # Figure out numpy include path
 # todo: CMake >= 3.14 populates this var automatically when using COMPONENTS NumPy
@@ -56,7 +53,10 @@ target_include_directories(cython${Pytho
 
 # Install the extension
 install(TARGETS cython${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_freenect
-  DESTINATION ${Python${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_SITELIB})
+  DESTINATION ${Python${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_SITELIB}
+  ARCHIVE DESTINATION ${PYTHON${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_SITE_PACKAGES}
+  LIBRARY DESTINATION ${PYTHON${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_SITE_PACKAGES}
+  )
 
 # TODO: decide on what to do with demo_ scripts and were to install
 #       them
diff -up ./wrappers/python/setup.py.py3 ./wrappers/python/setup.py
--- ./wrappers/python/setup.py.py3	2023-07-13 21:56:42.085711096 -0400
+++ ./wrappers/python/setup.py	2023-07-13 21:56:56.680797569 -0400
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-from distutils.core import setup
-from distutils.extension import Extension
+from setuptools import setup
+from setuptools import Extension
 import re
 import numpy as np