diff -up libfreenect-0.7.5/src/fwfetcher.py.py3 libfreenect-0.7.5/src/fwfetcher.py
--- libfreenect-0.7.5/src/fwfetcher.py.py3	2024-01-06 17:57:12.000000000 +0100
+++ libfreenect-0.7.5/src/fwfetcher.py	2025-11-25 00:20:24.085725755 +0100
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/python3
 
 from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ import sys
 import time
 import zipfile
 
-try:
+if sys.version_info[0] > 2:
     # Python 3
     from urllib.request import Request, URLError, urlopen
-except ImportError:
+else:
     # Python 2
     from urllib2 import Request, URLError, urlopen
 
diff -up libfreenect-0.7.5/wrappers/python/CMakeLists.txt.py3 libfreenect-0.7.5/wrappers/python/CMakeLists.txt
--- libfreenect-0.7.5/wrappers/python/CMakeLists.txt.py3	2024-01-06 17:57:12.000000000 +0100
+++ libfreenect-0.7.5/wrappers/python/CMakeLists.txt	2025-11-11 09:48:50.045686564 +0100
@@ -19,10 +19,7 @@ find_program(CYTHON_EXECUTABLE cython)
 
 # Figure out installation path
 # CMake populates this var automatically but we need to specify prefix
-execute_process(COMMAND
-  ${Python${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_EXECUTABLE}
-    -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib(plat_specific=False, standard_lib=False, prefix='${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}'))"
-  OUTPUT_VARIABLE Python${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_SITELIB OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+set(Python${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_SITELIB "${Python${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_SITEARCH}")
 
 # Figure out numpy include path
 # todo: CMake >= 3.14 populates this var automatically when using COMPONENTS NumPy
@@ -73,7 +70,10 @@ target_include_directories(cython${Pytho
 
 # Install the extension
 install(TARGETS cython${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_freenect
-  DESTINATION ${Python${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_SITELIB})
+  DESTINATION ${Python${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_SITELIB}
+  ARCHIVE DESTINATION ${PYTHON${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_SITE_PACKAGES}
+  LIBRARY DESTINATION ${PYTHON${Python_BUILD_VERSION}_SITE_PACKAGES}
+  )
 
 # TODO: decide on what to do with demo_ scripts and were to install
 #       them
diff -up libfreenect-0.7.5/wrappers/python/setup.py.py3 libfreenect-0.7.5/wrappers/python/setup.py
--- libfreenect-0.7.5/wrappers/python/setup.py.py3	2024-01-06 17:57:12.000000000 +0100
+++ libfreenect-0.7.5/wrappers/python/setup.py	2025-11-11 09:48:50.045794539 +0100
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-from distutils.core import setup
-from distutils.extension import Extension
+from setuptools import setup
+from setuptools import Extension
 import re
 import numpy as np