diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 5f44c3494..4aee99fb5 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ ELSE ()
     MESSAGE (FATAL_ERROR "Invalid PYTHON_DESIRED value: " ${PYTHON_DESIRED})
 ENDIF()
 
-EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -c "from sys import stdout; from distutils import sysconfig; stdout.write(sysconfig.get_python_lib())" OUTPUT_VARIABLE PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR)
+EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -c "from sys import stdout; from sysconfig import get_path; stdout.write(get_path('purelib'))" OUTPUT_VARIABLE PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR)
 MESSAGE(STATUS "Python install dir is ${PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR}")
 
 ADD_SUBDIRECTORY (dnf)
diff --git a/dnf/const.py.in b/dnf/const.py.in
index 4ef2613ec..5c1fef0fd 100644
--- a/dnf/const.py.in
+++ b/dnf/const.py.in
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 #
 
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
-import distutils.sysconfig
+import sysconfig
 
 CONF_FILENAME='/etc/dnf/dnf.conf' # :api
 CONF_AUTOMATIC_FILENAME='/etc/dnf/automatic.conf'
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ VERBOSE_LEVEL=6
 PREFIX=NAME.lower()
 PROGRAM_NAME=NAME.lower()  # Deprecated - no longer used, Argparser prints program name based on sys.argv
 PLUGINCONFPATH = '/etc/dnf/plugins'  # :api
-PLUGINPATH = '%s/dnf-plugins' % distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib()
+PLUGINPATH = '%s/dnf-plugins' % sysconfig.get_path('purelib')
 VERSION='@DNF_VERSION@'
 USER_AGENT = "dnf/%s" % VERSION
 
diff --git a/dnf/persistor.py b/dnf/persistor.py
index 9ab3ffbbf..d0deb42f5 100644
--- a/dnf/persistor.py
+++ b/dnf/persistor.py
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from dnf.i18n import _
-import distutils.version
 import dnf.util
 import errno
 import fnmatch