diff --git a/scripts/prepare_python_linux.sh b/scripts/prepare_python_linux.sh
index 1b7271f3..ed5ad911 100755
--- a/scripts/prepare_python_linux.sh
+++ b/scripts/prepare_python_linux.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-mkdir python && cd python
+mkdir -p python && cd python || exit 1
 
 wget "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.4/Python-3.6.4.tar.xz" || exit 1
 tar -xf Python-3.6.4.tar.xz || exit 1
@@ -14,8 +14,23 @@ echo "Building Python to install to prefix $CUSTOM_PYTHON_PREFIX"
 make -j4 || exit 1
 make install > /dev/null || exit 1
 
+cd ..
+
+echo "Patching libs in $CUSTOM_PYTHON_PREFIX/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload to have the correct rpath"
+wget https://nixos.org/releases/patchelf/patchelf-0.9/patchelf-0.9.tar.bz2 || exit 1
+tar -xf patchelf-0.9.tar.bz2 || exit 1
+cd patchelf-0.9 || exit 1
+./configure || exit 1
+make || exit 1
+cd ..
+
+for lib in "$CUSTOM_PYTHON_PREFIX/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload"/*.so; do
+	echo "  patching $lib"
+    patchelf-0.9/src/patchelf --set-rpath '$ORIGIN/../..' "$lib" || exit 1
+done
+
 PYTHONHOME=$CUSTOM_PYTHON_PREFIX \
        LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$CUSTOM_PYTHON_PREFIX/lib \
        "$CUSTOM_PYTHON_PREFIX/bin/pip3" install jupyter || exit 1
 
-cd ../..
+cd ..