diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 62862b6716f0d7825a0658dec7b85a78d27dc94d..2a7c0844b212fb5b042e2c1381189fbcbbff8994 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ cp -v dist/mermaid.js* ../mkdocs-docs/docs/js/
 cd ../
 python --version
 pip --version
-sudo apt-get install pip
+sudo apt-get install python-pip
 
 wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
 sudo python get-pip.py