diff --git a/bootstrap-salt.sh b/bootstrap-salt.sh
index a3d6cd8..be52c77 100755
--- a/bootstrap-salt.sh
+++ b/bootstrap-salt.sh
@@ -1898,8 +1898,15 @@ __overwriteconfig() {
         tempfile="/tmp/salt-config-$$"
     fi
 
+    # If python does not have yaml installed we're on Arch and should use python2
+    if python -c "import yaml" 2> /dev/null; then
+        good_python=python
+    else
+        good_python=python2
+    fi
+
     # Convert json string to a yaml string and write it to config file. Output is dumped into tempfile.
-    python -c "import json; import yaml; jsn=json.loads('$json'); yml=yaml.safe_dump(jsn, line_break='\n', default_flow_style=False); config_file=open('$target', 'w'); config_file.write(yml); config_file.close();" 2>$tempfile
+    $good_python -c "import json; import yaml; jsn=json.loads('$json'); yml=yaml.safe_dump(jsn, line_break='\n', default_flow_style=False); config_file=open('$target', 'w'); config_file.write(yml); config_file.close();" 2>$tempfile
 
     # No python errors output to the tempfile
     if [ ! -s "$tempfile" ]; then