diff --git a/bin/Alien-PIP b/bin/Alien-PIP
index e7929208..5ea9f375 100755
--- a/bin/Alien-PIP
+++ b/bin/Alien-PIP
@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ try:
    from urllib2 import urlopen, Request
 except ImportError:
    from urllib.request import urlopen, Request
-from distutils.version import StrictVersion
+from pkg_resources import parse_version 
 def available_versions(prog):
    try:
      url = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/%s/json" %prog
      data = json.load(urlopen(Request(url)))
-     versions = data["releases"].keys()
-     versions.sort(key=StrictVersion)
+     versions = list(data["releases"].keys())
+     versions.sort(key=parse_version)
      return versions
    except:
      return ''
diff --git a/lib/python3.8/site-packages/Alien.py b/lib/python3.8/site-packages/Alien.py
index c3a6b4bc..44b38923 100755
--- a/lib/python3.8/site-packages/Alien.py
+++ b/lib/python3.8/site-packages/Alien.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ def getinstallversion(rule):
     alientype, alienpkg, lowerbound, upperbound = parse_rule(rule)
     p = subprocess.Popen(['Alien-' + alientype, '--getinstallversion',
                           alienpkg, lowerbound, upperbound], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
-    return p.stdout.read().strip()
+    return p.stdout.read().decode('utf-8').strip()
 
 
 def split(program):