diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 745212b78450ce96135edd282037336e0d27a180..574912607d4cd6add6e9970b59c50a224e970f9e 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ find_python_module(hptt OPTIONAL)       # high performance cpu tensor transpose
 find_python_module(flint OPTIONAL)      # high performance linear system solver (fallback to sympy)
 find_python_module(tbb OPTIONAL)        # additional numba threading backend (fallback to pthreads)
 find_python_module(mkl_fft OPTIONAL)    # additional fft backend, faster then FFTW, faster then clFFT on CPU OpenCL platforms.
-find_python_module(pycairo OPTIONAL)    # additional plotting backend
+find_python_module(cairo OPTIONAL)      # additional plotting backend
 find_python_module(matplotlib OPTIONAL) # required for general plots
 find_python_module(pyvis OPTIONAL)      # required for graph plots
 find_python_module(memory_tempfile OPTIONAL) # enable in memory HDF5 I/O to call paraview during simulation