diff --git a/bin/gourmet b/bin/gourmet
deleted file mode 100755
index 29bc0d27d..000000000
--- a/bin/gourmet
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# PYTHON_ARGCOMPLETE_OK
-# Copyright (c) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Tom Hinkle
-# You may use and distribute this software under the terms of the
-# GNU General Public License, version 2 or later
-
-import sys
-
-# The following line is modified at installation time by setup.py so it
-# points to the actual modules installation path.
-lib_dir = '.'
-
-if lib_dir not in sys.path:
-    sys.path.insert(0, lib_dir)
-
-from gourmet import GourmetRecipeManager
-GourmetRecipeManager.startGUI()
-
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cb4fdbf80..8cc5af8fb 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import fileinput
 import glob
 import os
 import os.path as op
@@ -9,7 +8,6 @@
 import distutils.command.build_py
 import distutils.command.build_scripts
 import distutils.core
-from distutils.util import convert_path
 import setuptools
 
 
@@ -198,39 +196,6 @@ def run(self):
 distutils.command.build.build.sub_commands.append(("build_i18n", None))
 
 
-
-class build_scripts(distutils.command.build_scripts.build_scripts):
-    """build_scripts command
-
-    This specific build_scripts command will modify the bin/gourmet script
-    so that it contains information on installation prefixes afterwards.
-    """
-
-    def copy_scripts(self):
-        distutils.command.build_scripts.build_scripts.copy_scripts(self)
-
-        if "install" in self.distribution.command_obj:
-            iobj = self.distribution.command_obj["install"]
-            lib_dir = iobj.install_lib
-            data_dir = iobj.install_data
-
-            if iobj.root:
-                lib_dir = lib_dir[len(iobj.root):]
-                data_dir = data_dir[len(iobj.root):]
-
-            script = convert_path("bin/gourmet")
-            outfile = op.join(self.build_dir, op.basename(script))
-
-            # abuse fileinput to replace two lines in bin/gourmet
-            for line in fileinput.input(outfile, inplace=1):
-                if "lib_dir = '.'" in line:
-                    line = "lib_dir = '%s'\n" % lib_dir
-                elif "data_dir = '.'" in line:
-                    line = "data_dir = '%s'\n" % data_dir
-
-                print(line),
-
-
 if sys.platform == "win32":
     # GTK file inclusion
     from gi.repository import Gtk
@@ -432,8 +397,9 @@ def crawl_plugins(base, basename):
     include_package_data=True,
     cmdclass={'build': build_extra,
               'build_i18n': build_i18n,
-              'build_scripts': build_scripts,
               },
-
-    scripts=[op.join('bin', 'gourmet')],
+    entry_points={
+        "console_scripts": [
+            "gourmet = gourmet.GourmetRecipeManager:startGUI",
+        ]}
 )