diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gusb/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gusb/default.nix
index c3ae6faecfd7..449a7a17623b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gusb/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gusb/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, meson, ninja, pkg-config, gettext, gobject-introspection
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, substituteAll, meson, ninja, pkg-config, gettext, gobject-introspection
 , gtk-doc, docbook_xsl, docbook_xml_dtd_412, docbook_xml_dtd_44, python3
 , glib, systemd, libusb1, vala, hwdata
 }:
@@ -10,15 +10,22 @@ let
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "gusb";
-  version = "0.3.5";
+  version = "0.3.7";
 
   outputs = [ "bin" "out" "dev" "devdoc" ];
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/releases/libgusb-${version}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "1pv5ivbwxb9anq2j34i68r8fgs8nwsi4hmss7h9v1i3wk7300ajv";
+    sha256 = "sha256-2l8l1oc2ImibM1FIbL4CjvwlRAP2Rt2BIl3+hULYxn0=";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    (substituteAll {
+      src = ./fix-python-path.patch;
+      python = "${pythonEnv}/bin/python3";
+    })
+  ];
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     meson ninja pkg-config gettext pythonEnv
     gtk-doc docbook_xsl docbook_xml_dtd_412 docbook_xml_dtd_44
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gusb/fix-python-path.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/gusb/fix-python-path.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5f04387a537e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gusb/fix-python-path.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff --git a/gusb/meson.build b/gusb/meson.build
+index 8236a2b..282aa48 100644
+--- a/gusb/meson.build
++++ b/gusb/meson.build
+@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ libgusb_gir = libgusb_girtarget[0]
+ libgusb_typelib = libgusb_girtarget[1]
+ 
+ pymod = import('python')
+-py_installation = pymod.find_installation()
++py_installation = pymod.find_installation('@python@')
+ 
+ # Verify the map file is correct -- note we can't actually use the generated
+ # file for two reasons:
+