diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 33a81af7..119f666c 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: safeeyes
 Section: utils
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Gobinath Loganathan <slgobinath@gmail.com>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), dh-python, python3, python3-setuptools
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), dh-python, python3, python3-packaging, python3-setuptools
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 X-Python3-Version: >= 3.5
 Homepage: https://github.com/slgobinath/SafeEyes/
diff --git a/safeeyes/model.py b/safeeyes/model.py
index 453761df..c43dc570 100644
--- a/safeeyes/model.py
+++ b/safeeyes/model.py
@@ -22,9 +22,10 @@
 
 import logging
 import random
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 from enum import Enum
 
+from packaging.version import parse
+
 from safeeyes import utility
 
 
@@ -323,7 +324,7 @@ def __init__(self, init=True):
                 else:
                     user_config_version = str(
                         meta_obj.get('config_version', '0.0.0'))
-                    if LooseVersion(user_config_version) != LooseVersion(system_config_version):
+                    if parse(user_config_version) != parse(system_config_version):
                         # Update the user config
                         self.__merge_dictionary(
                             self.__user_config, self.__system_config)
diff --git a/safeeyes/utility.py b/safeeyes/utility.py
index 8006dd42..fb487f10 100644
--- a/safeeyes/utility.py
+++ b/safeeyes/utility.py
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 import shutil
 import subprocess
 import threading
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 from logging.handlers import RotatingFileHandler
 from pathlib import Path
 
@@ -43,6 +42,7 @@
 from gi.repository import Gtk
 from gi.repository import GLib
 from gi.repository import GdkPixbuf
+from packaging.version import parse
 
 gi.require_version('Gdk', '3.0')
 
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ def __update_plugin_config(plugin, plugin_config, config):
     if plugin_config is None:
         config['plugins'].remove(plugin)
     else:
-        if LooseVersion(plugin.get('version', '0.0.0')) != LooseVersion(plugin_config['meta']['version']):
+        if parse(plugin.get('version', '0.0.0')) != parse(plugin_config['meta']['version']):
             # Update the configuration
             plugin['version'] = plugin_config['meta']['version']
             setting_ids = []
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 07a314b9..4dda0231 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
     'psutil',
     'croniter',
     'PyGObject',
+    'packaging',
     'python-xlib'
 ]