diff --git a/source/getting-started/troubleshooting.markdown b/source/getting-started/troubleshooting.markdown
index 3d1e7a0f629..972b2942718 100644
--- a/source/getting-started/troubleshooting.markdown
+++ b/source/getting-started/troubleshooting.markdown
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ by some distributions. If you are unable to run `python3 -m pip --version` you c
[downloading the installer](https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py) and run it with Python 3:
`python3 get-pip.py`.
+**CentOS and Python 3**
+To run Python 3.x on [CentOS](https://www.centos.org/) or RHEL, [Software Collections](https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/rh-python34/) needs to be activated.