diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 732971b59fb68c471cb20e490eb396b5a7632583..9cd09ed90637aacd5de6d970c524c77bcb787511 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ find_package(Qt4 4.5.0 REQUIRED)
 find_package(OpenGL REQUIRED)
 find_package(PNG REQUIRED)
 find_package(Eigen 2.0.0 REQUIRED)
-find_package(Python 2.2.1 REQUIRED)
+find_package(Python 2.4 REQUIRED)
 
 if (ENABLE_IMG)
   find_package(FFTW REQUIRED)