diff --git a/pkg/debian/salt-cloud.postinst b/pkg/debian/salt-cloud.postinst
index 12a955b9349..a92551161da 100644
--- a/pkg/debian/salt-cloud.postinst
+++ b/pkg/debian/salt-cloud.postinst
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 case "$1" in
   configure)
-    chown -R salt:salt /etc/salt/cloud.deploy.d /opt/saltstack/salt/lib/python3.10/site-packages/salt/cloud/deploy
+    PY_VER=$(/opt/saltstack/salt/bin/python3 -c "import sys; sys.stdout.write('{}.{}'.format(*sys.version_info)); sys.stdout.flush;")
+    chown -R salt:salt /etc/salt/cloud.deploy.d /opt/saltstack/salt/lib/python${PY_VER}/site-packages/salt/cloud/deploy
   ;;
 esac