diff --git a/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-shared/resources/install_pyenv.rb b/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-shared/resources/install_pyenv.rb
index 1f7afb1266..194d9c40ab 100644
--- a/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-shared/resources/install_pyenv.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-shared/resources/install_pyenv.rb
@@ -53,5 +53,6 @@
     make
     make install
     VENV
+    not_if { Dir.glob("#{prefix}/versions/#{python_version}/bin/python*").any? }
   end
 end