diff --git a/lib/puppet/provider/package/pip.rb b/lib/puppet/provider/package/pip.rb
index 3efa34212..22762c293 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/provider/package/pip.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/provider/package/pip.rb
@@ -1,110 +1,119 @@
 # Puppet package provider for Python's `pip` package management frontend.
 # <http://pip.openplans.org/>
 
 require 'puppet/provider/package'
 require 'xmlrpc/client'
 
 Puppet::Type.type(:package).provide :pip,
   :parent => ::Puppet::Provider::Package do
 
   desc "Python packages via `pip`."
 
   has_feature :installable, :uninstallable, :upgradeable, :versionable
 
   # Parse lines of output from `pip freeze`, which are structured as
   # _package_==_version_.
   def self.parse(line)
     if line.chomp =~ /^([^=]+)==([^=]+)$/
       {:ensure => $2, :name => $1, :provider => name}
     else
       nil
     end
   end
 
   # Return an array of structured information about every installed package
   # that's managed by `pip` or an empty array if `pip` is not available.
   def self.instances
     packages = []
-    pip_cmd = which('pip') or return []
+    pip_cmd = which(cmd) or return []
     execpipe "#{pip_cmd} freeze" do |process|
       process.collect do |line|
         next unless options = parse(line)
         packages << new(options)
       end
     end
     packages
   end
 
+  def self.cmd
+    case Facter.value(:osfamily)
+      when "RedHat"
+        "pip-python"
+      else
+        "pip"
+    end
+  end
+
   # Return structured information about a particular package or `nil` if
   # it is not installed or `pip` itself is not available.
   def query
     self.class.instances.each do |provider_pip|
       return provider_pip.properties if @resource[:name] == provider_pip.name
     end
     return nil
   end
 
   # Ask the PyPI API for the latest version number.  There is no local
   # cache of PyPI's package list so this operation will always have to
   # ask the web service.
   def latest
     client = XMLRPC::Client.new2("http://pypi.python.org/pypi")
     client.http_header_extra = {"Content-Type" => "text/xml"}
     client.timeout = 10
     result = client.call("package_releases", @resource[:name])
     result.first
   rescue Timeout::Error => detail
     raise Puppet::Error, "Timeout while contacting pypi.python.org: #{detail}";
   end
 
   # Install a package.  The ensure parameter may specify installed,
   # latest, a version number, or, in conjunction with the source
   # parameter, an SCM revision.  In that case, the source parameter
   # gives the fully-qualified URL to the repository.
   def install
     args = %w{install -q}
     if @resource[:source]
       if String === @resource[:ensure]
         args << "#{@resource[:source]}@#{@resource[:ensure]}#egg=#{
           @resource[:name]}"
       else
         args << "#{@resource[:source]}#egg=#{@resource[:name]}"
       end
     else
       case @resource[:ensure]
       when String
         args << "#{@resource[:name]}==#{@resource[:ensure]}"
       when :latest
         args << "--upgrade" << @resource[:name]
       else
         args << @resource[:name]
       end
     end
     lazy_pip *args
   end
 
   # Uninstall a package.  Uninstall won't work reliably on Debian/Ubuntu
   # unless this issue gets fixed.
   # <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562544>
   def uninstall
     lazy_pip "uninstall", "-y", "-q", @resource[:name]
   end
 
   def update
     install
   end
 
   # Execute a `pip` command.  If Puppet doesn't yet know how to do so,
   # try to teach it and if even that fails, raise the error.
   private
   def lazy_pip(*args)
     pip *args
   rescue NoMethodError => e
-    if pathname = which('pip')
+    if pathname = which(self.class.cmd)
       self.class.commands :pip => pathname
       pip *args
     else
       raise e, 'Could not locate the pip command.'
     end
   end
 end