diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 45ab3524c..0bb83c8c4 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ or, for Yum-based systems, such as RedHat, CentOS or Fedora::
 
     sudo yum install autoconf automake libtool
 
+or, for Pacman-based systems such as ArchLinux::
+
+    sudo pacman -Sy autoconf automake libtool
+
 To check out the code from GitHub, including all dependencies that are
 specified as Git submodules, do the following::
 
diff --git a/admin/server.py b/admin/server.py
index 8aa6bdd78..bfcb99bc7 100755
--- a/admin/server.py
+++ b/admin/server.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
diff --git a/admin/upgrade_config.py b/admin/upgrade_config.py
index c3e0e7aaa..7e02b11ca 100755
--- a/admin/upgrade_config.py
+++ b/admin/upgrade_config.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 
 # Cherokee CLI configuration conversion
 #
diff --git a/cherokee/cherokee-admin-launcher b/cherokee/cherokee-admin-launcher
index ff6cdf200..b82df512c 100755
--- a/cherokee/cherokee-admin-launcher
+++ b/cherokee/cherokee-admin-launcher
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 
 # -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*-
 #
diff --git a/cherokee/cherokee-tweak b/cherokee/cherokee-tweak
index 02d8bc90f..72cf39e9c 100755
--- a/cherokee/cherokee-tweak
+++ b/cherokee/cherokee-tweak
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 
 # -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*-
 #
diff --git a/cherokee/main_admin.c b/cherokee/main_admin.c
index cf142a1bb..f072bf945 100644
--- a/cherokee/main_admin.c
+++ b/cherokee/main_admin.c
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ check_for_python (void)
 	int         re;
 	pid_t       pid;
 	int         exitcode = -1;
-	char const *args[]   = {"env", "python", "-c", "raise SystemExit", NULL};
+	char const *args[]   = {"env", "python2", "-c", "raise SystemExit", NULL};
 
 	pid = fork();
 	if (pid == -1) {
diff --git a/contrib/tracelor.py b/contrib/tracelor.py
index 3f4865701..3b0df76d0 100755
--- a/contrib/tracelor.py
+++ b/contrib/tracelor.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 
 ##
 ## Cherokee trace colorizer
diff --git a/doc/build/asciidoc.py b/doc/build/asciidoc.py
index 7df59b877..e2fe42f10 100755
--- a/doc/build/asciidoc.py
+++ b/doc/build/asciidoc.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 """
 asciidoc - converts an AsciiDoc text file to DocBook, HTML or LinuxDoc
 
diff --git a/doc/cookbook_dbslayer.txt b/doc/cookbook_dbslayer.txt
index 22e498398..ca820abd4 100644
--- a/doc/cookbook_dbslayer.txt
+++ b/doc/cookbook_dbslayer.txt
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ the server name and prepare a database accessible with the parameters
 detailed above (database name, user parameters and so on).
 
 --------------------------------------
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 import urllib
 
 sql="SELECT * FROM my_table;"
diff --git a/doc/test_images.py b/doc/test_images.py
index 9a8b42945..a5eb639df 100755
--- a/doc/test_images.py
+++ b/doc/test_images.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 
 # Cherokee Doc: Image checker
 #
diff --git a/doc/test_links.py b/doc/test_links.py
index 3e1a45213..2765ba955 100755
--- a/doc/test_links.py
+++ b/doc/test_links.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 
 # Cherokee Doc: Link checker
 #
diff --git a/po/admin/generate_POTFILESin.py b/po/admin/generate_POTFILESin.py
index 7b3f77a84..c585bd6de 100755
--- a/po/admin/generate_POTFILESin.py
+++ b/po/admin/generate_POTFILESin.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 
 # Cherokee POTFILES.in generator
 #
diff --git a/po/po_stats.py b/po/po_stats.py
index 8f0bcadb4..c8ec16e1b 100755
--- a/po/po_stats.py
+++ b/po/po_stats.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 # Cherokee PO stats
diff --git a/qa/fcgi.py b/qa/fcgi.py
index 1b79f4b3f..9d792d8f6 100644
--- a/qa/fcgi.py
+++ b/qa/fcgi.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 
 Example usage:
 
-  #!/usr/bin/env python
+  #!/usr/bin/env python2
   from myapplication import app # Assume app is your WSGI application object
   from fcgi import WSGIServer
   WSGIServer(app).run()
diff --git a/qa/run-tests.py b/qa/run-tests.py
index 6a8cdc89c..d71850cb9 100755
--- a/qa/run-tests.py
+++ b/qa/run-tests.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 # Cherokee QA Tests