diff --git a/pkgs/applications/search/catfish/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/search/catfish/default.nix
index 795d804038d8..bad10a8607a6 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/search/catfish/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/search/catfish/default.nix
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
 
 pythonPackages.buildPythonApplication rec {
   majorver = "1.4";
-  minorver = "1";
+  minorver = "2";
   version = "${majorver}.${minorver}";
   name = "catfish-${version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://launchpad.net/catfish-search/${majorver}/${version}/+download/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0dc9xq1l1w22xk1hg63mgwr0920jqxrwfzmkhif01yms1m7vfdv8";
+    sha256 = "0j3by9yfs4j9za3s5qdxrsm7idmps69pimc9d0mjyakvviy0izm3";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ pythonPackages.buildPythonApplication rec {
     gnome3.dconf
     pythonPackages.pyxdg
     pythonPackages.ptyprocess
-    pycairo
+    pythonPackages.pycairo
   ];
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
@@ -34,8 +34,9 @@ pythonPackages.buildPythonApplication rec {
     xdg_utils
     findutils
   ];
-  
+
   preFixup = ''
+    rm "$out/${pythonPackages.python.sitePackages}/catfish_lib/catfishconfig.pyc"
     for f in \
       "$out/${pythonPackages.python.sitePackages}/catfish_lib/catfishconfig.py" \
       "$out/share/applications/catfish.desktop"
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 318d77c09d1b..8f6b40dc92f5 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12026,7 +12026,7 @@ in
   carddav-util = callPackage ../tools/networking/carddav-util { };
 
   catfish = callPackage ../applications/search/catfish {
-    pythonPackages = python3Packages;
+    pythonPackages = python2Packages;
   };
 
   cava = callPackage ../applications/audio/cava { };