diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 6e9f42fc..94279ab4 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@
 # default is just pip, but on things like arch where python 3 is default, it's pip2
 if [ $(which pip2) ]; then
     PIP="pip2"
+    VIRTUALENV="virtualenv2"
 else
     PIP="pip"
+    VIRTUALENV="virtualenv"
 fi
 
 LIBCAPSTONE_SHA256="a7bf1cb814c6e712a314659b074bc4c00d2e0006cac67d055d3130d4ecdd525d"
@@ -37,6 +39,7 @@ if [[ "$unamestr" == 'Linux' ]]; then
     echo "installing pip"
     sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm base-devel python2-pip
     PIP="pip2"
+    VIRTUALENV="virtualenv2"
   elif [ $(which yum) ]; then
     sudo yum install -y python-pip python-devel gcc gcc-c++ python-virtualenv glib2-devel
   fi
@@ -64,7 +67,7 @@ elif [[ "$unamestr" == 'Darwin' ]]; then
 fi
 
 echo "installing pip packages"
-virtualenv venv
+$VIRTUALENV venv
 source venv/bin/activate
 $PIP install --upgrade -r requirements.txt