diff --git a/xCAT-UI/xCAT-UI.spec b/xCAT-UI/xCAT-UI.spec
index 21f876103..fec0532d8 100644
--- a/xCAT-UI/xCAT-UI.spec
+++ b/xCAT-UI/xCAT-UI.spec
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ BuildRoot: /var/tmp/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
 
 BuildArch: noarch
 Provides: xCAT-UI = %{version}
+Requires: python >= 2.3
 
 %ifos linux
 # httpd is provided by apache2 on SLES and httpd on RHEL