diff --git a/builds/runtimes/python-2.6.0 b/builds/runtimes/python-2.6.0
index 5714b9a..0ac069e 100755
--- a/builds/runtimes/python-2.6.0
+++ b/builds/runtimes/python-2.6.0
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 OUT_PREFIX=$1
 
 echo "Building Python..."
-SOURCE_TARBALL='http://python.org/ftp/python/2.6/Python-2.6.tgz'
-curl -L $SOURCE_TARBALL | tar xz
+SOURCE_TARBALL='http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6/Python-2.6.tar.bz2'
+curl -L $SOURCE_TARBALL | tar jx
 mv Python-2.6 src
 cd src