diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8176013..1a4d487 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ for the list of changes in SaltStack.
 
 - Upgrade `salt-master` to `3005` *Phosphorus*
 - Change Docker base image to `ubuntu:jammy-20220531`
-- Upgrade Python to version `3.10`
+- Use `python3` default distro version
 - Install `python3-pygit2` version `1.6.1` from Ubuntu repositories
 
 **3004.2**
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 3e0db21..98ac825 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ ARG VCS_REF
 
 # https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases
 # NOTE: Review org.label-schema.version label if necessary
-ENV SALT_VERSION="3005rc1" \
-    PYTHON_VERSION="3.10"
+ENV SALT_VERSION="3005rc1"
 
 ENV SALT_DOCKER_DIR="/etc/docker-salt" \
     SALT_ROOT_DIR="/etc/salt" \
@@ -32,7 +31,7 @@ WORKDIR ${SALT_BUILD_DIR}
 RUN apt-get update \
  && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install --yes --quiet --no-install-recommends \
     sudo ca-certificates openssl apt-transport-https wget locales openssh-client \
-    python${PYTHON_VERSION} python3-dev libpython3-dev \
+    python3 python3-dev libpython3-dev \
     python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-wheel \
     supervisor logrotate git gettext-base tzdata inotify-tools psmisc \
  && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive update-locale LANG=C.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=POSIX \
diff --git a/assets/build/install.sh b/assets/build/install.sh
index f3f2e15..1b5a740 100755
--- a/assets/build/install.sh
+++ b/assets/build/install.sh
@@ -54,8 +54,7 @@ check_sha256 "${BOOTSTRAP_FILE}" "${BOOTSTRAP_SHA256}"
 ## -d: Disables checking if Salt services are enabled to start on system boot
 ## -P: Allow pip based installations
 ## -p: Extra-package to install
-## -x: Changes the python version used to install a git version of salt
-SALT_BOOTSTRAP_OPTS=( -M -N -X -d -P -p salt-api -p salt-call -x "python${PYTHON_VERSION}" )
+SALT_BOOTSTRAP_OPTS=( -M -N -X -d -P -p salt-api -p salt-call )
 
 ## -I: allow insecure connections while downloading any files
 is_arm32 && SALT_BOOTSTRAP_OPTS+=( -I )