diff --git a/CMakeScripts/InstallMSYS2.cmake b/CMakeScripts/InstallMSYS2.cmake
index 7694e4ed2506264c69c946e225c234507217e1c1..1a0438a991241442ebb3bb97aad49f3cb01a3d61 100644
--- a/CMakeScripts/InstallMSYS2.cmake
+++ b/CMakeScripts/InstallMSYS2.cmake
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ if(WIN32)
 
     # Python packages for the extensions manager, and clipart importer extensions
     set(packages
-        "python-appdirs" "python-msgpack" "python-cachecontrol"
+        "python-platformdirs" "python-msgpack" "python-cachecontrol"
         "python-idna" "python-urllib3" "python-chardet" "python-certifi" "python-requests" "python-beautifulsoup4" "python-filelock")
     foreach(package ${packages})
       list_files_pacman(${package} paths)
diff --git a/buildtools/msys2installdeps.sh b/buildtools/msys2installdeps.sh
index 14a504f19d9d74234e95063b0c973a18e8489781..666fc1a6adf3765fba8a18a3108fced1c48237df 100644
--- a/buildtools/msys2installdeps.sh
+++ b/buildtools/msys2installdeps.sh
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ $ARCH-scour
 
 # install modules needed by extensions manager and clipart importer
 eval pacman -S $PACMAN_OPTIONS \
-$ARCH-python-appdirs \
+$ARCH-python-platformdirs \
 $ARCH-python-beautifulsoup4 \
 $ARCH-python-cachecontrol \
 $ARCH-python-certifi \
diff --git a/packaging/appimage/generate.sh b/packaging/appimage/generate.sh
index 5d3fe7fb0d0fe9b5fa150454156b4a2cc756b332..cf4bb34180e582389fd5c4dd98580e8b02c3996b 100755
--- a/packaging/appimage/generate.sh
+++ b/packaging/appimage/generate.sh
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ apt_bundle \
     python3-webencodings \
     python3-tinycss2 \
     python3-packaging \
-    python3-appdirs \
+    python3-platformdirs \
     python3-bs4 \
     python3-gi \
     python3-gi-cairo \
diff --git a/packaging/debian/control b/packaging/debian/control
index 33d866bd308fb91cf6a34044619b6a79b7043b2b..85be8e01fc1f8739146d6022c31786dc3cb9f324 100644
--- a/packaging/debian/control
+++ b/packaging/debian/control
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Description: vector-based drawing program - extensions
 Package: inkscape-extension-manager
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}, inkscape-extensions,
- python3-appdirs,
+ python3-platformdirs
  python3-cachecontrol,
  python3-certifi,
  python3-charset-normalizer,
diff --git a/snap/snapcraft.yaml b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
index 90c09a4a6958b606987a40fc53c40575c47b76dc..f029c7036171f11d604aa9ae427521f80f720c40 100644
--- a/snap/snapcraft.yaml
+++ b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ parts:
     python-packages:
 #    the following dependencies are taken manually from share/extensions/other/inkman/pyproject.toml:
       - requests
-      - appdirs
+      - platformdirs
       - filelock
       - cachecontrol[filecache]
 #     the following dependencies are taken manually from share/extensions/other/clipart/pyproject.toml: