diff --git a/tests/test-basic-user-only.sh b/tests/test-basic-user-only.sh
index f65094fd..105be893 100755
--- a/tests/test-basic-user-only.sh
+++ b/tests/test-basic-user-only.sh
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ extra_basic_tests=5
 . $(dirname $0)/basic-test.sh
 
 $CMD_PREFIX ostree --version > version.yaml
-python3 -c 'import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open("version.yaml"))'
+@python3@ -c 'import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open("version.yaml"))'
 echo "ok yaml version"
 
 # Reset things so we don't inherit a lot of state from earlier tests
diff --git a/tests/test-remote-headers.sh b/tests/test-remote-headers.sh
index a41d087a..77b34c90 100755
--- a/tests/test-remote-headers.sh
+++ b/tests/test-remote-headers.sh
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ echo '1..2'
 . $(dirname $0)/libtest.sh
 
 V=$($CMD_PREFIX ostree --version | \
-  python3 -c 'import sys, yaml; print(yaml.safe_load(sys.stdin)["libostree"]["Version"])')
+  @python3@ -c 'import sys, yaml; print(yaml.safe_load(sys.stdin)["libostree"]["Version"])')
 
 setup_fake_remote_repo1 "archive" "" \
   --expected-header foo=bar \