diff --git a/recipes/genotyphi/build.sh b/recipes/genotyphi/build.sh
index 02cad3b5754b6..e0c809d30f2da 100644
--- a/recipes/genotyphi/build.sh
+++ b/recipes/genotyphi/build.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 mkdir -p $PREFIX/bin
 cp mappingbased/genotyphi.py $PREFIX/bin/genotyphi.py
-ln -sf $PREFIX/bin/genotyphi.py $PREFIX/bin/genotyphi
+ln $PREFIX/bin/genotyphi.py $PREFIX/bin/genotyphi
 chmod +x $PREFIX/bin/genotyphi.py $PREFIX/bin/genotyphi
 
 # Add script for Mykrobe based analysis
diff --git a/recipes/genotyphi/meta.yaml b/recipes/genotyphi/meta.yaml
index ab9dddcdb3bcb..0963798dfb8ae 100644
--- a/recipes/genotyphi/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/genotyphi/meta.yaml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ requirements:
   host:
     - wget
   run:
-    - python <3
+    - python
     - samtools >=1.1
     - bcftools >=1.1
     - pandas