diff --git a/bleachbit.spec b/bleachbit.spec
index 3fba673..2f48bfa 100644
--- a/bleachbit.spec
+++ b/bleachbit.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Name:       bleachbit
 Summary:    Remove sensitive data and free up disk space
 URL:        https://www.bleachbit.org/
 Version:    4.2.0
-Release:    1%{?dist}
+Release:    2%{?dist}
 License:    GPLv3+ and MIT
 BuildArch:  noarch
 
@@ -26,7 +26,11 @@ BuildRequires: python3-rpm-macros
 
 Requires: gtk3
 Requires: python3-chardet
+%if 0%{?rhel}  &&  0%{?rhel} < 8
+Requires: python36-gobject
+%else
 Requires: python3-gobject
+%endif
 
 %description
 Delete traces of your computer activity and other junk files to free
@@ -44,13 +48,32 @@ to make them run faster.
 
 
 
+# EPEL7 still defaults to Python 2.
+%if  0%{?rhel}  &&  0%{?rhel} < 8
+%global  __python  %{__python3}
+%endif
+
+# EPEL7 rpmbuild still defines _metainfodir as /usr/share/appdata/, even though plenty of packages use the newer /usr/share/metainfo/.
+%if  0%{?rhel}  &&  0%{?rhel} < 8
+%global  _metainfodir  %{_datadir}/metainfo
+%endif
+
+
+
 %prep
 # Can't verify the tarball all at once because upstream switched from detached signature file to a signed checksum...
 # %%{gpgverify} --keyring='%%{SOURCE2}' --signature='%%{SOURCE1}' --data='%%{SOURCE0}'
 gpg2 --import %{SOURCE2}
 gpg2 --verify %{SOURCE1}
+
 cd %{_sourcedir}
+# Old version of sha256sum on EPEL7 doesn't support ignoring missing files or PGP signature in the checksum file, so we have to filter for the one line we want.
+%if 0%{?rhel}  &&  0%{?rhel} < 8
+grep "bleachbit-%{version}.tar.bz2"  %{SOURCE1}  > ./extracted-checksum.txt
+sha256sum --check ./extracted-checksum.txt
+%else
 sha256sum --ignore-missing  --check %{SOURCE1}
+%endif
 
 
 
@@ -116,6 +139,9 @@ appstream-util validate-relax --nonet %{buildroot}/%{_metainfodir}/org.bleachbit
 
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Jan 15 2021 Andrew Toskin <andrew@tosk.in> - 4.2.0-2
+- Adjust package spec to build for EPEL7.
+
 * Wed Jan 6 2021 Andrew Toskin <andrew@tosk.in> - 4.2.0-1
 - Bump to upstream version 4.2.0, which, among other things, adds new
   cleaners and regular expression-based searches during deep scans.