diff --git a/CMake/FindBoost.cmake b/CMake/FindBoost.cmake
index 913b6b5c1892e8c66e20d54ffebe9cf989e27d12..c07b392e53882dc787f3990deb0572b0ddc86e98 100644
--- a/CMake/FindBoost.cmake
+++ b/CMake/FindBoost.cmake
@@ -69,14 +69,10 @@ if("${Boost_FIND_COMPONENTS}" MATCHES "python")
         string(REPLACE "python" "python3"
                Boost_FIND_COMPONENTS "${Boost_FIND_COMPONENTS}")
       else(APPLE)
-        # On ubuntu, boost-python for python 3 is called e.g. boost-python-py35
+        # On ubuntu, boost-python for python 3 is called e.g. boost_python-py35
         string(REPLACE "python"
                        "python-py${PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR}${PYTHON_VERSION_MINOR}"
                Boost_FIND_COMPONENTS "${Boost_FIND_COMPONENTS}")
-        if(NOT Boost_python_FOUND)
-          string(REPLACE "python-py${PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR}${PYTHON_VERSION_MINOR}"
-                         "python3"
-                 Boost_FIND_COMPONENTS "${Boost_FIND_COMPONENTS}")               
         endif(NOT Boost_python_FOUND)
       endif(APPLE)
   endif(PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR GREATER 2)