diff --git a/dports/graphics/inkscape-devel/Portfile b/dports/graphics/inkscape-devel/Portfile
index 8061d1b..a62f72c 100644
--- a/dports/graphics/inkscape-devel/Portfile
+++ b/dports/graphics/inkscape-devel/Portfile
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ depends_lib     port:boehmgc \
 #
 
 depends_lib-append \
-                port:py26-lxml \
-                port:py26-numpy \
-                port:py26-xml
+                port:py27-lxml \
+                port:py27-numpy \
+                port:py27-xml
 
 pre-fetch {
     ui_msg "--->  Fetching source from bzr repository: this may take a while"
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ configure.args  --with-xft \
                 --enable-poppler-cairo \
                 --enable-dbusapi
 
-configure.python ${prefix}/bin/python2.6
+configure.python ${prefix}/bin/python2.7
 
 configure.cppflags-append \
         -I${worksrcpath}/src/extension/script
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ variant enable_debugging conflicts disable_debugging description {Enable debuggi
 }
 
 post-patch {
-        reinplace "s|\"python-interpreter\", \"python\"|\"python-interpreter\", \"python2.6\"|g" ${worksrcpath}/src/extension/implementation/script.cpp
+        reinplace "s|\"python-interpreter\", \"python\"|\"python-interpreter\", \"python2.7\"|g" ${worksrcpath}/src/extension/implementation/script.cpp
         reinplace "s|^#include \"Object.h\"|#include \"${prefix}/include/poppler/Object.h\"|" ${worksrcpath}/src/extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-parser.h
         reinplace "s|^#include \"Object.h\"|#include \"${prefix}/include/poppler/Object.h\"|" ${worksrcpath}/src/extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-parser.cpp
 }