diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/kodi/no-python-lib.patch b/pkgs/applications/video/kodi/no-python-lib.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d45e02dd1846
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/kodi/no-python-lib.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/cmake/scripts/linux/Install.cmake b/cmake/scripts/linux/Install.cmake
+index 9c45c91774..763d6acab4 100644
+--- a/cmake/scripts/linux/Install.cmake
++++ b/cmake/scripts/linux/Install.cmake
+@@ -199,8 +199,6 @@ install(FILES ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${CORE_BUILD_DIR}/scripts/${APP_NAME}Config.cm
+ 
+ if(ENABLE_EVENTCLIENTS)
+   find_package(PythonInterpreter REQUIRED)
+-  execute_process(COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib(prefix=''))"
+-                  OUTPUT_VARIABLE PYTHON_LIB_PATH OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+   # Install kodi-eventclients-common BT python files
+   install(PROGRAMS ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/tools/EventClients/lib/python/bt/__init__.py
+                    ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/tools/EventClients/lib/python/bt/bt.py
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/kodi/unwrapped.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/kodi/unwrapped.nix
index e8e5b5844f1f..b3fd8d87881a 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/kodi/unwrapped.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/kodi/unwrapped.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, lib, fetchFromGitHub, fetchzip
+{ stdenv, lib, fetchFromGitHub, fetchzip, fetchpatch
 , autoconf, automake, libtool, makeWrapper
 , pkg-config, cmake, yasm, python3Packages
 , libxcrypt, libgcrypt, libgpg-error, libunistring
@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
       hash  = "sha256-xrFWqgwTkurEwt3/+/e4SCM6Uk9nxuW62SrCFWWqZO0=";
     };
 
+    patches = [
+      ./no-python-lib.patch
+    ];
+
     # make  derivations declared in the let binding available here, so
     # they can be overridden
     inherit libdvdcss libdvdnav libdvdread groovy
@@ -189,6 +193,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
       "-DSWIG_EXECUTABLE=${buildPackages.swig}/bin/swig"
       "-DFLATBUFFERS_FLATC_EXECUTABLE=${buildPackages.flatbuffers}/bin/flatc"
       "-DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=${buildPackages.python3Packages.python}/bin/python"
+      "-DPYTHON_LIB_PATH=${python3Packages.python.sitePackages}"
       # When wrapped KODI_HOME will likely contain symlinks to static assets
       # that Kodi's built in webserver will cautiously refuse to serve up
       # (because their realpaths are outside of KODI_HOME and the other