diff --git a/avocado/plugins/exec_path.py b/avocado/plugins/exec_path.py
index 5701bc89334bbe8b0a6319c174638188f4df89de..d050ea379bc6d4f4941411dce372764dadc659fe 100644
--- a/avocado/plugins/exec_path.py
+++ b/avocado/plugins/exec_path.py
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 Libexec PATHs modifier
 """
 
+import os
+
 from pkg_resources import resource_filename
 from avocado.core.output import LOG_UI
 from avocado.core.plugin_interfaces import CLICmd
@@ -34,4 +36,8 @@ class ExecPath(CLICmd):
 
         :param args: Command line args received from the run subparser.
         """
-        LOG_UI.debug(resource_filename("avocado", "libexec"))
+        system_wide = '/usr/libexec/avocado'
+        if os.path.isdir(system_wide):
+            LOG_UI.debug(system_wide)
+        else:
+            LOG_UI.debug(resource_filename("avocado", "libexec"))
diff --git a/python-avocado.spec b/python-avocado.spec
index aa5d38248b400492051571ad08c75ab8b2dafe82..4f6ad651a9bc61bb2cf06d899e8b8be88e200611 100644
--- a/python-avocado.spec
+++ b/python-avocado.spec
@@ -203,8 +203,8 @@ popd
 %{__cp} -r examples/yaml_to_mux %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/avocado
 %{__cp} -r examples/yaml_to_mux_loader %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/avocado
 %{__cp} -r examples/varianter_pict %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/avocado
-%{__mkdir} -p %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}/
-ln -s %{python_sitelib}/avocado/libexec/ %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}/avocado
+%{__mkdir} -p %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}/avocado
+%{__mv} %{buildroot}%{python_sitelib}/avocado/libexec/* %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}/avocado
 
 %check
 %if %{with_tests}
@@ -479,7 +479,6 @@ A small set of utilities to interact with Avocado from the Bourne
 Again Shell code (and possibly other similar shells).
 
 %files bash
-%{python_sitelib}/avocado/libexec*
 %{_libexecdir}/avocado*
 
 %changelog
@@ -488,6 +487,7 @@ Again Shell code (and possibly other similar shells).
 - Removed extra dependencies on Fedora 24 for runner-remote
 - Added python-avocado requirement for golang plugin
 - Added new common sub-package
+- Make bash package independent of Python version
 
 * Thu Mar  8 2018 Cleber Rosa <cleber@redhat.com> - 59.0-1
 - Remove backward compatibility with name avocado